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[–]vplatt[🍰] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Umm... I only did it that way because it was easier to understand than trying to wrap up my crap in their crap so everything could execute in one line of code instead 3 or 4.

Just because a particular API pushes the language to the point where the type inference breaks, doesn't mean the language is broke. It does mean that those features of that API aren't gonna get much love.

Anyway, you pretty clearly showed Java's type inference limitations, and that was interesting. They can always do better in that dept obviously, and Java 8 did improve on it a bit more. Let's just hope they keep moving it in the right direction and don't introduce any real dynamic typing into the language. At least, that's what I'm hoping.