[DrJava] [ drjava-Bugs-1236151 ] deficient generics support

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Bugs item #1236151, was opened at 2005-07-11 11:54
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Category: Interactions
Group: Annoying
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Fernando Pereira (fcnpereira)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: deficient generics support

Initial Comment:
There are two problems with generics support on the interactions pane 
that are certain to cause confusion to students.

1. No autounboxing

2. No type checking of method arguments

The two problems are shown in the following interactions

> import java.util.*;
> List<Integer> l = new ArrayList<Integer>();
> l.add(1)
true
> l.get(0)
1
> l.get(0) == 1
Error: Bad type in comparison expression
> l.add("foo")
true

It would be great if these problems were corrected before next 
semester, where we will be using DrJava with generics for an
intro CS class.

Thanks

-- F


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