Re: Error in the equal method of generic Pair class
Gregory Whitall wrote:
On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Lew wrote:
Tom Anderson wrote:
Because there's no way to actually check that cast. The way java does
generics is through a half-arsed approach called "type erasure", which
means all the stuff to do with generic types is done at compile time,
and
none of the information survives to runtime. What looks like a
Pair<String, Date> to the compiler is a Pair<Object, Object> to the JVM.
Actually, it's a Pair <?, ?> to the JVM.
Really?
OK, I misspoke. It's just that Pair <?, ?> is the closest bigger type to a
workable Pair in Java.
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Lew
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