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FYI, reified generics undermine type safety and correctness in general, which is one of the reasons why so few languages support the concept (another is that erased generics allow for easier interoperability and for the creation of a much wider class of static type systems).

In my experience, most people who think they need reified generics don't really understand them and can actually do fine with much safer concepts expressed on an erased runtime.



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