Improving Generics: The Votes Are In, We Want It
Reporting from Javapolis on Voting on Java 7 language changes, Stephen Colebourne reported that:
Stephen Colebourne: The strongest support was for Improving Generics, String Switch and Multi-catch. Attendees were giving a clear 'yes' to these being in Java 7.
The voting was done using a white board. The result for improving generics is 112-4-11, as shown in this image I grabbed from the results page:
So the cause of Erase Erasure lives on.