Re: generics in ASM

Joshua,

  ASM never been generified. The main reason is to maintain
compatibility with Java 1.1.
  Perhaps it is now time to review that. Eg. one could use
retrotranslator or retroweaver tools to run ASM on old JVMs.

  regards,
  Eugene


On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Joshua Warner <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While reading through the documentation
> (http://download.forge.objectweb.org/asm/asm-guide.pdf), I noticed a
> discrepancy.  In that document, it seems to indicate that the ListS in
> ClassNode are generic, e.g List<MethodNode> (see pages 83-84).  When looking
> both the source code (SVN trunk) and the api documentation, I see that this
> is not the case.
>
> Were these fields generic at the time the documentation was written?  If so,
> why were they changed back?  If not, why not use generics?
>
> Regards,
> Joshua

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