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Re: Java Generics in Writable Classes

[Doug Cutting]

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 5:52 AM, Apurv Verma  wrote:
> why was it decided to declare them as
>
> public class IntWritable implements WritableComparable
>
> and not as
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> public class IntWritable implements WritableComparable

This class was written in 2003.  Generics were added to Java in 2004.

Doug