[Proposal]

[Sean Fritz]

In article <e747sa$nn9$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Dave says...
>
>So let's say we want to implement a generic sqr method in Java... How 
>would we do it? I came up w/ this after just a quick look at the spec. 
>to get the syntax right:
>
>public class Test
>{
>	public static <T> T sqr(T x)
>	{
>		return x * x;
>	}
>}

Java Generics are typesafe, you must bound the type with something that
implements multiply().

public class Test {
public static <T extends Multiplyable<T>> T sqr(T x) {
return x.multiply(x);
}
}

Assuming multiplyable is a generic interface that takes a type paramter.