Generics

[Suddhasattwa Mukherjee]

Class <T>
{
<T> T fn();
}

what this code is signifying?Particularly the line

<T> T fn();

[Ben Smither]

The type of the fn() can be different than the type of Class. So if you have Class <String>, you can return an Integer in fn().

Originally posted by Suddhasattwa Mukherjee:

Class <T>
{
<T> T fn();
}

what this code is signifying?Particularly the line

<T> T fn();

[Nabila Mohammad]

I thought they were supposed to be same - the class type and return type...

[Ken Truitt]

Looks to me like a generic class (signified by the <T> after the class
name, which is Class, although the class keyword is omitted) with a
generic method.

The generic method is using the same identifier as the
class so I would guess that it means that the method will be using the
same type as the class itself.

So in the method, the method type is <T>, but the return type is T.

so somewhere if someone had new Class<String>(), all those T's would
be String. Either that, or I'm wrong.