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I admit, we’ve been lured into using this technique as well. It’s just so convenient, as it allows for avoiding a seemingly unnecessary cast. It’s the following technique here: interface SomeWrapper { <T> T get(); } Now you can type safely assign anything from the wrapper to any type: SomeWrapper wrapper = ... // Obviously ...