Re: Rather, DSSLs increase modularity, productivity

[Christopher Barber <address@hidden>]

Robby Findler wrote:

>At Mon, 17 Nov 2003 22:23:41 -0500, Christopher Barber wrote:
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>>No, in Java's version of generics the checks are still done at runtime; 
>>the compiler just generates them for you.
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>I'm no Java expert, but from what I'd understood, this is false. This
>web page also seems to indicate that generics are statically checked:
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>  http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/releases/generics/
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>but it isn't a technical spec, clearly.
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Yes indeed.  That article skips the interesting details.  You need to 
read the spec.

Generics are statically checked, but because of the way they are 
implemented there are ways to get around the wrong type of objects into 
your collections after all, so the runtime checks need to be generated 
as well.

- C