In my previous post, I looked at some of the problems associated with long parameters lists for methods and constructors. In that post, I discussed replacing primitives and built-in types with custom ...

In the current series of posts I am writing on reducing the number of parameters required to call Java methods and constructors, I have focused so far on approaches that directly affect the parameters ...

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Not only are generics/templates better for type safety, they are much faster than casting back and fourth. Or as they call it in .NET land boxing and unboxing.