[drdeca]

in their example, iiuc, DB takes as input the value k, and returns a value of type Optional[k.Value] . The return type depends on the input.

[jhhh]

I could be missing something but my example does as well since it's a method level generic:

  Name nameKey = ...;
  Age ageKey = ...;
  
  Optional<String> name = db.get(nameKey);
  Optional<Integer> age = db.get(ageKey);

[Mehdi2277]

The difference is your keys are types. Dependent types are about generics where the keys are allowed to be values. You can not in Java directly do,

Optional<1> and Optional<“Name”>. You can only have types as arguments.

C++ has some dependent types in it allows you to have generic arguments be ints std::array<…, 4> but it still does not allow most values as generic type argument.