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Adrian Kuhn akuhn at gmx.ch
Tue Mar 3 13:51:11 PST 2009

On Mar 3, 2009, at 21:17 , Marek Kozieł wrote:

ALTERNATIVES: Rewriting each method's signature on every class / interface.

Using self-bound generics, such as

abstract class A<Self extends A> { abstract Self self(); }

class B extends A { B self(); }

class C extends A { C self(); }

This is used in java.lang.Enum for example.

--AA