OK. Based on the previous discussion in this thread, and at least one other person posting their view in favor of type inferencing (vs. safety), I'm going to allow (3) to have type inference.
-Marshall On 7/8/2015 11:17 AM, Richard Eckart de Castilho wrote: > On 08.07.2015, at 17:11, Marshall Schor <m...@schor.com> wrote: > >> I think that similar arguments apply to other getters, such as >> getAnnotationIndex(some-type-spec). >> >> These are currently defined to be generic methods so they do type >> inferencing. > True. > > Mind, I'm arguing for the conservative and safe choice here ( typically not > my role ;) ). > > Back in the issue [1] I had first chosen a signature that allowed non-safe > type inference > and you were cautious of that. > > But my feeling is that for the present case being cautious/conservative and > in particular safe is the better choice. > > Cheers, > > -- Richard > > [1] > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-4299?focusedCommentId=14487976&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-14487976
