22. Generics
Objectives
In this chapter you’ll learn:
• To create generic methods that perform identical tasks on arguments of different types.
• To create a generic Stack class that can be used to store objects of any class or interface type.
• To understand how to overload generic methods with nongeneric methods or with other generic methods.
• To understand the new() constraint of a type parameter.
• To apply multiple constraints to a type parameter.
...our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows.
—Havelock Ellis
Born under one law, to another bound.
—Lord Brooke
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