On Jun 26, 2008, at 3:50 AM, Paul Sandoz wrote:
>
> On Jun 26, 2008, at 9:12 AM, Paul Sandoz wrote:
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>>>
>>> Also I think that, strictly speaking, getExceptionMapper should
>>> return ExceptionMapper<? super T> rather than ExceptionMapper<T>
>>> since getExceptionMapper(FooException.class) could actually return
>>> an ExcpetionMapper<Exception.class> if that is provider whose
>>> generic type is the nearest superclass of Foo. Not sure it
>>> particularly matters though, is it worth being explicit ?
>>>
>>
>> I think it is worth using the type system where possible to be more
>> accurate.
>>
>
> From the advice of Josh Bloch using wildcards should be avoided for
> return types because it makes things hard and exposes such things on
> the user (namely they start having to declare the wildcard type)
> where as wildcards should be used to accept or reject things.
>
That makes sense, I'll stick with <T> then.
Marc.
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Marc Hadley <marc.hadley at sun.com>
CTO Office, Sun Microsystems.