Signature of anything()

[herzi]

When I use anything() in my tests, the compiler sometimes is not able to infer the type of the matcher (e.g. when I use generic convenience methods that will have to pull out objects of an [Any] before checking the type and then applying the matcher).

This will lead to error messages like

Generic parameter W could not be inferred.

where W corresponds to the generic type of a matcher.

Shouldn't it be okay for anything() to return Matcher<Any> instead of Matcher<T>. The generic type T doesn't seem to be used anywhere and I wouldn't have to tell the compiler what to do by adding as Matcher<Any> to my code.