On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Kevin Bourrillion <kev...@google.com>wrote:
> With all due respect, I rest my case. :-) > > (Meaning: since you chose such a hypothetical future situation as an > illustration, it suggests that indeed no actual bugs are being prevented > here in the real world.) > > We have to recognize the fact that it is no small amount of the world's > Java code that would become broken if generics were ever reified. And, as > well, that -- no, I won't go on about this, because it's now a tangent of a > tangent. > That depends on how the reification is done. Reification as described in < http://gafter.blogspot.com/2006/11/reified-generics-for-java.html> would break no existing code.
