I want to get rid of it extending map. Have it define as asMap()
function instead. Especially since JDK 8 is bringing in extension
methods, which adds new (and default) methods to all collections, it
won't look very nice. Let's make a break now.

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Raman Gupta <rocketra...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 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
>
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