Java type inference is broken: can we fix it?

Daniel Smith, Robert Cartwright. Java type inference is broken: can we fix it?. In Gail E. Harris, editor, Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, OOPSLA 2008, October 19-23, 2008, Nashville, TN, USA. pages 505-524, ACM, 2008. [doi]

@inproceedings{SmithC08,
  title = {Java type inference is broken: can we fix it?},
  author = {Daniel Smith and Robert Cartwright},
  year = {2008},
  doi = {10.1145/1449764.1449804},
  url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1449764.1449804},
  tags = {type inference, Java},
  researchr = {https://researchr.org/publication/SmithC08},
  cites = {0},
  citedby = {0},
  pages = {505-524},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, OOPSLA 2008, October 19-23, 2008, Nashville, TN, USA},
  editor = {Gail E. Harris},
  publisher = {ACM},
  isbn = {978-1-60558-215-3},
}