Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
The type erasure of its leftmost bound, or type Object if no bound was specified.
Examples:
type parameters type erasure
List<String> List
Map.Entry<String,Long> Map.Entry
<T extends Cloneable & Comparable<T>> Cloneable
<T extends Object & Comparable<T>> Object
<T> T[] toArray(T[] a) Object[] toArray(Object[] a)
The type erasure process can be imagined as a translation from generic Java source code back into
regular Java code. In reality the compiler is more efficient and translates directly to Java byte code. But the
byte code created is equivalent to the non-generic Java code.