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Disagree with bullshit term: heap pollution.

Pollution is the proliferation of superfluous objects creating some sort of undesirable mixture. For instance "namespace pollution".

An inconsistency between the run-time type of an object in the heap, and the type of the expression in the program which refers to that object, isn't a good fit for the word "pollution".

Quit trying to pollute the computing lexicon with nonsense.



Looks like this is a thing in Java culture; good grief.




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