Re: Unchecked call hashmap

From:
Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:50:20 GMT
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<gEEDi.9168$5x2.3400@trndny07>
Crouchez wrote:

"Eric Sosman" <Eric.Sosman@sun.com> wrote in message
news:1189015687.400080@news1nwk...

Crouchez wrote On 09/05/07 13:21,:

What is this with javac -Xlint??

warning: [unchecked] unchecked call to put(K,V) as a memb
er of the raw type java.util.HashMap
                headers.put(key,val);
                           ^

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/generics/index.html

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Eric.Sosman@sun.com


I'm trying to stay away from Generics. Is it really worth that extra coding
effort? It makes you're code look ugly as well.

For the cost of "ugly" code (C++ templates can go much uglier), you get
compile-time errors instead of runtime errors for some parts of your
code, most notably in the Collections interface. Unless you are doing
awkward tricks or pushing the edges of generics, generics might save you
  some significant debugging time...

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