Re: Can this callback mechanism be generified?

Casper Bang wrote:
> I managed to make the API just slightly easier to use, by extracting the

> type from Callback<T> rather than requiring an explicit Class to be 
> supplied along with it. It's not pretty but I'm not sure of how to 
> extract type T, since I guess its not readily available on the account 
> of generics by erasure:
> 
> interface Callback<T> {
>      String format(T object);
>  }
> 
> class Somewhere {
>      Map<Class<?>, Callback<?>> callbacks

This I still don't get.  What's the advantage of Class<?> over Class?

I like your original program better.  All the random generics are just 
starting to obscure the actual design now.