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Here's one of the reasons I find the various attempts to make languages like Java more dynamic amusing - look at the headache David Walend gets trying to do the Java equivalent of this:

someArray := Array with: elementKind1 with: elementKind2 with: elementKind3.

In Smalltalk, we can place any objects we want into a collection - and write tests to ensure that they all support the appropriate protocol. As it happens, I use such collections extensively in BottomFeeder to hold various feed or item like things. In Java, you also have to satisfy the compiler...