Redundant type in RingBuffer

[Fil Mackay]

The type "TU" seems redundant in RingBuffer.. since the type T is
provided by the parent type (RingBuffer<T>)...?

[Tim Gebhardt]

Doing so produces a compiler warning.  It's bad practice to use the same generic identifier in a subclass because it's unclear as to which you're referring to. 

With greenfield projects (which Disruptor-net was only a short while ago), I argue it's good to strive for a warnings-as-errors policy to keep the code ultra-clean.


Tim

[Fil Mackay]

Tim, there is no use of an identical generic identifier in a subclass. The parent (RingBuffer) uses 'T' and the subclass uses 'TU' (?)

By question was: why use 'TU' at all, when 'T' is already available to the subclass. T is always the same as TU.

Regards, Fil.