Java generics (was Re: [computer-go] Chains and liberties)

[Peter Drake <drake@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday, November 15, 2004, at 02:03  AM, Mark Boon wrote:

(I hope I'm not attributing this quotation to the wrong author.)

> > > But
> > > casts are very expensive. In Java 1.5, which I don't use yet, there 
> > > are
> > > type-safe collections, but I understand from the documentation it 
> > > just
> > > does
> > > the cast under the hood. (Swept under the carpet I call that.)
The Java 1.5 generic types are used to check type safety at compile 
time.  They are not kept around at run time, so they don't cause any 
performance hit.

Peter Drake
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Lewis & Clark College
http://www.lclark.edu/~drake/

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