[sharednothing]

Judging by the upvotes, the comment was misread. The point was that it is trivial to extend the generalization to avoid verbose references and type names.

[Luyt]

Does Java have typedefs nowadays?

[sharednothing]

No. Don't need them.

https://gist.github.com/755824

[veemjeem]

are you some kind of java troll?