> It's a type hint, it's not a type coercion. > > Without the type hint, the compiler doesn't know the type of s, so it > can't find the .getBytes method (nor, of course, its return type) and, > in doubt, picks the "broader" constructor: OtpErlangBinary(Object). > With the type hint, the compiler know that s must be treated as a > String, it find .getBytes, sees that it returns a byte[] and is able to > select the right constructor for OtpErlangBinary.
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