[Aurora] No generics????

Having said that... for any change to the Java language, if an IDE doesn't

support the new features, it's a problem. I'd be disappointed and very
surprised if IDEA doesn't support generics by the time, or very soon after
Java SDK 1.5 comes out.

AFAIK Java SDK 1.5 won't come very soon, will it?

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"Ash Searle" <jiveadmin@jetbrains.com> wrote in message
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That's not to say Idea shouldn't make AspectJ folks
happy, but Generics is a much bigger win in terms of
its applicability to a wide audience.

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I just meant to say that Generics isn't something that changes your

mindset. Generics are IMHO just syntactic sugar that reduce the amount of
code you have to write to make type specific collections, but don't change
the way you think about the design or development. If you wanted a
collection of things before, you still want a collection with generics. No
change.
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Thinking in aspects makes a much bigger change than generics. I think

that IntelliJ is more about the revolutionary than the evolutionary, and
AFAIK generics isn't even evolutionary, it's simply putting something into
Java that the original language designers deliberately left out.
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Having said that... for any change to the Java language, if an IDE doesn't

support the new features, it's a problem. I'd be disappointed and very
surprised if IDEA doesn't support generics by the time, or very soon after
Java SDK 1.5 comes out.
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Thomas Singer wrote:

These are the reasons, why I want to use Generics as soon as possible.
If any IDE supports it before official release of Java 1.5, we
seriously will consider using this IDE.

Speaking as a recent NetBeans convert - NB has this support, (Admittedly,
I've never used it...). NB has some definite plusses over IDEA as far as
features are concerned, but in usability it is far behind...

CU,
Edwin

just to add fuel to the fire... Gosling uses emacs cause it's the "only" IDE that supports generics...

http://www.sys-con.com/Java/articlenews.cfm?id=1918

At last... our voices were heard!

IntelliJ is planning to include generics support in Aurora!

See: http://www.intellij.net/forums/thread.jsp?forum=22&thread=28629&message=472068