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Sun to Add Variance to Java in 1.5?

Posted by Hemos on from the grow-the-coffee dept.

Ahe writes "I have been working on a joint project between Sun Microsystems, The University of Aarhus, and The Alexandra Institute. As you might know, Sun has for long been commited to adding generics to Java. Our project was to extend this with variance annotations for more flexible typing of parameterized classes and arrays. Recently Sun has released the project result as a new prototype with variance. If you like variance, please vote for this bug."

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  1. Re:Short description of variance by ENOENT · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah, I agree. It's the C++ syndrome of adding bunches of new language features in the hopes that one of them will fix the problems introduced by all of the previous additions.

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    That's "Mr. Soulless Automaton" to you, Bub.