Java Reference
In-Depth Information
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Those who want details of the way generics were added should see the original design documents,
such as
Adding
Generics
to
the
Java
Programming
Language
by Gilad Bracha, et al. (
ht-
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If you really want to get a grasp on how to use generics, you will need to read the generics chapter
in Josh Bloch's
Effective Java
(Prentice Hall)… a couple of times.
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What follows is another reflection of my early life as a philosopher, where I received a Ph.D. in the
philosophy of language. Those who, like my wife, think that such study simply caused me to be interes-
ted in the uninteresting and the unintelligible should feel free to skip the next couple of paragraphs and
start again with “we will capture this….”