im dealing with a java class that has some generic...

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[mkobit]

im dealing with a java class that has some generics that look like

public class Thing<SELF extends Thing<SELF>> {
  // some methods that for chaining that return SELF

how can i construct an instance of Thing itself?

val thing = Thing() // can't infer type
val thing: Thing<*> = Thing() // can't infer type
val thing: Thing<out Thing> = Thing() // need more types
val thing: Thing<out Thing<out Thing>> = Thing() // uh oh, still need more types!