On 17 April 2016 at 23:38, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Java generics ruined a perfectly good language. I mean: > > The diamond operator in JDK 7 makes this a lot more tolerable, IMO: > > Map<AccountManager, List<Customer>> customersOfAccountManager = > new HashMap<>(); > To some extent - you can't use the diamond operator when creating an anonymous subclass, and you often need to explicitly specify the types for generic methods. The inference engine is fairly limited. I wouldn't say generics ruined Java - they made it better in some ways (for a primarily statically-typed language) but worse in others (esp. that they're implemented by erasure). I also wouldn't describe Java as a "perfectly good language" - it is at best a compromise language that just happened to be heavily promoted and accepted at the right time. Python is *much* closer to my idea of a perfectly good language. Tim Delaney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
