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Posted to dev@uima.apache.org by Adam Lally <al...@alum.rpi.edu> on 2009/08/11 21:26:33 UTC

Re: [VOTE] generics: have methods returning objects infer the type from the receiving variable type (was: clarifying a generics issue)

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Marshall Schor<ms...@schor.com> wrote:
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> So - can we close up this discussion with a vote on the following:
>
> On the normal scale of -1, 0, +1, to the proposition -
>
> have the generic form of many methods that are in the public API for
> UIMA that return UIMA objects, return a type which is inferred from the
> receiving typed variable,  versus having it return just one fixed type
> not inferred from the receiving typed variable,
>

-1

Adam