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Reporting from Javapolis on Voting on Java 7 language changes, Stephen Colebourne reported that:

Stephen Colebourne: The strongest support was for Improving Generics, String Switch and Multi-catch. Attendees were giving a clear 'yes' to these being in Java 7.

The voting was done using a white board. The result for improving generics is 112-4-11, as shown in this image I grabbed from the results page:

So the cause of Erase Erasure lives on.