WHY OH WHY isn't there a warning in Java if you have something like ( Read more... )

I like having typed containers, but JEEZ they could have fixed the syntax!  As far as I can tell, there are NO type abbreviations, and you have to use the fully-parameterized type when creating an object, leading to this code:

private HashMap< Pair, Set> origThrowMap =
        new HashMap
, Set>();

And what I want to do isn't all that complicated ( Read more... )

I wish Java had "fold", and real lambdas!

I suppose I could program in Scala, but I'm unsure how well that would work.