Is there a common ancestor for `String` and `Char`...

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[Alexander Suraphel]

Is there a common ancestor for String and Char?

[Rob Elliot]

Only really Any. Char represents a single character, String an immutable list of characters, so it's hard to see what common supertype they could have.

(They can also both inherit from Comparable<*>, but that's not a lot of use...)

[ephemient]

pretty much. the variance is Comparable<in T> , so Comparable<*> is effectively Comparable<Nothing> which is useless 😄