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Re:Diminishing returns of static typing by mattnewton on Monday October 02, 2017 @03:43PM (#15387267)
It’s not about having the difference, it’s about having to explain to Javac what I am using because it’s incapable of doing meaningful type inference.
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Re:Diminishing returns of static typing by vkou on Monday October 02, 2017 @04:37PM (#15387709)
Only in the case of generic erasure, which is a Java wart that we will, sadly, never eliminate.
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