Marshall Schor wrote:
On the normal scale of -1, 0, +1, to the proposition -
have the generic form of many methods that are in the public API for
UIMA that return UIMA objects, return a type which is inferred from the
receiving typed variable, versus having it return just one fixed type
not inferred from the receiving typed variable,
Marshall: + .5 (somewhat in favor, but can live with not doing
inference, perhaps implementing "internal" versions)
-1, but there are a very few methods where type inferring
from the receiving typed variable would improve the calling
code.
Jörn
