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Groovy under Java 5

 
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As Groovy runs under Java 5 but doesn't support the generics facilities to be accomodated.
why this is so?
 
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Gecause dynamic languages solve the problem that Java 5 generics attempt yo solve in Java.
 
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Currently, JDK 1.4 is in far wider use that Java 5 and Groovy wants to run on all these installations.

Groovy also runs on Java 5 but that doesn't imply support for annotations or generics. Just think that nobody would ask Jython to support that ;-)
Annotations and generics are Java language features, not Java platform features, and Groovy builds on the Java platform.

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Thanks guys.
 
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