The Java 5 "Generics" tutorial has a section called "Converting Legacy Code to Use Generics". It says that the JDK's
Collections class has a method with the following signature:
public static <T extends Object & Comparable<? super T>>
T max(Collection<? extends T> coll)
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I'd really appreciate something concrete to examine and play around with, such as a code fragment that either wouldn't compile without that part, or would behave sub-ideally somehow (?); but less-concrete explanations are welcome as well.
Thanks in advance!
