Thursday, 26 November 2020

Why aren't Java Collections remove methods generic?

I recently came across a small problem. The program ran fine, but my IDE had it underlined as being highly dodgy.

It is the same for Collection.contains and Map.get

Just see the references why this is.

References

StackOverflow - Why aren't Java Collections remove methods generic?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/104799/why-arent-java-collections-remove-methods-generic
Youtube - Advanced Topics in Programming Languages: Java Puzzlers,...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDN_EYUvUq0

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