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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Simplify generic parameterization on some operations","articleBody":"I'm working on the `reified` generation for the Kotlin API, and I'm noticing that lots of methods have unnecessary type parameters that makes the `reified` usage much less nice (since you have to specify all type parameters if you specify one).  The best example is probably `cast`, which has the signiture:\r\n```java\r\n\u003cU extends TType, T extends TType\u003e Cast\u003cU\u003e cast(Operand\u003cT\u003e x, Class\u003cU\u003e DstT, Cast.Options... options)\r\n```\r\n\r\n`T` is completely unnecessary and could be replaced with `?` without issue, but it prevents `cast\u003cTInx32\u003e(x)` usage from Kotlin.  This shows up in a number of Ops, mostly with the unnecessary type parameters on the input.  It essentially needs a \"is this type param only bounded by TType and only used on inputs\" check.\r\n\r\n_Originally posted by @rnett in https://github.com/tensorflow/java/issues/174#issuecomment-751537426_","author":{"url":"https://github.com/karllessard","@type":"Person","name":"karllessard"},"datePublished":"2020-12-28T16:18:14.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":10},"url":"https://github.com/176/java/issues/176"}