Hello everyone,

Even though two methods both use the generic return type - E - I'm
getting an error saying that they're incompatible types. Here's the
truncated code:

public class CircularLinkedList<E> extends AbstractList<E> {

 private class Node {

    private E element;

         public E element () {
            return this.element;
          }
    } //end Node

    private class CircularLinkedIterator<E> implements
dataStructs.Iterator<E> {

       private Node current;

       public Node current () {
         return this.current;
      }

      public E get () {
        return current.element();  //error is at this line
     }
 } //end CircularLinkedIterator

}//end CircularLinkedList

The error that I receive reads:

Error:   incompatible types
found:        E
required:    E

I'm at a loss for understanding why the same generic types could
render an incompatible types error. Can anyone shine some Java
wisdom?? Thanks for any help anyone can offer.