Super Type TokensThoughts about Programming Languages, Science and Philosophy. When we added generics to Java in JDK5, I changed the class java.lang.Class to become a generic type. For example, the type of String.class is now Class<String>. Gilad Bracha coined the term type tokens for this. My intent was to enable a particular style of API, which Joshua Bloch calls the THC, or Typesafe Heterogenous Container patte
