I switched the Java compiler from using the source 1.2 flag so that it now compiles using full 1.5 syntax. I'm not actually going to use generics or anything like that. However I needed covariance for the static make methods to implement the Err constructors. It seems weird to me that static methods aren't automatically covariant across all versions, but they aren't unless you compile as 1.5.
brian Mon 29 May 2006
I switched the Java compiler from using the source 1.2 flag so that it now compiles using full 1.5 syntax. I'm not actually going to use generics or anything like that. However I needed covariance for the static make methods to implement the Err constructors. It seems weird to me that static methods aren't automatically covariant across all versions, but they aren't unless you compile as 1.5.