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java Programming Glossary: reifiable

why polymorphism doesn't treat generic collections and plain arrays the same way?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10770585/why-polymorphism-doesnt-treat-generic-collections-and-plain-arrays-the-same-way

system. And this is so because arrays are what we call reifiable types . This means that at runtime Java knows that this array.. system either. As such we say that generic types are non reifiable . Evidently this would hamper polymorphism. Consider the following..

How to reference a generic return type with multiple bounds

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14464226/how-to-reference-a-generic-return-type-with-multiple-bounds

tries to get assigned to the foo1 reference which has the reifiable type Foo1 . You're probably thinking Okay so it blew up at the..

What's the issue with creating a generic array? [duplicate]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18581002/whats-the-issue-with-creating-a-generic-array

parameterized types Yes. The reason being a List is a reifiable type. And that makes sense as there is no type associated at.. case is same with raw types array. As raw types are also reifiable types you can create an array List . So it goes like you can.. List . So it goes like you can only create an array of reifiable types but not non reifiable types. Note that in all the above..

Array type in generics

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3853411/array-type-in-generics

can't create arrays of generic or parameterized types only reifiable types i.e. types which can be deduced at runtime . It is possible..

Why doesn't Java allow generic subclasses of Throwable?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/501277/why-doesnt-java-allow-generic-subclasses-of-throwable

improve this question As mark said the types are not reifiable which is a problem in the following case try doSomeStuff catch..