On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 5:52 AM, Apurv Verma <dapu...@gmail.com> wrote: > why was it decided to declare them as > > public class IntWritable implements WritableComparable > > and not as > > public class IntWritable implements WritableComparable<IntWritable>
This class was written in 2003. Generics were added to Java in 2004. Doug