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Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> Here generics or built-in container types are the only options.

Well, yes, that's what we've been trying to tell you :-)

> Anyway array types solve this for one particular  case without generics.

Well, the genericity is there, it's just that the compiler does it for
you without you having to specify it yourself.

> Maybe, there is a more general way to deal with the containers of 
> all kinds without generics. I do not know.

The way it's handled in Java is to hide away the container inside a
class, then cut-and-paste code that does a cast to the desired type
whenever an object is extracted from the container. Horrible.