Type erasure and reification
https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2018/type-erasure-and-reification/ [eli.thegreenplace.net]
2018-12-05 20:54
In this post I’d like to discuss the concepts of type erasure and reification in programming languages. I don’t intend to dive very deeply into the specific rules of any particular language; rather, the post is going to present several simple examples in multiple languages, hoping to provide enough intuition and background for a more serious study, if necessary. As you’ll see, the actual concepts are very simple and familiar. Deeper details of specific languages pertain more to the idiosyncrasies of those languages’ semantics and implementations.
source: HN