On 09/04/2011 04:00 PM, James Carman wrote: > On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Simone Tripodi <simonetrip...@apache.org> > wrote: >> >> That is able to 'auto-cast' the retrieved object while Map#get() not. >> > > I believe the feature is actually called "type inference", not "auto-cast." > :)
Thanks for the explanation... I see now that via the generic method the compiler infers the return type from the assignment type. Cheers, Raman --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org