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From: Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Universal type
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 13:35:05 -0700
Date: 2007-08-03T13:35:05-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1186173305.970431.205500@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1ahn79bfztaga.35cwalkctrgj$.dlg@40tude.net>

On 3 Sie, 21:10, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
wrote:

> What will you do with that list?

The "C-way-of-thinking" is regularly criticized here, but
interestingly, the "Java-way-of-thinkng" doesn't seem to be much
better... ;-)

My answer to the above question: Java people added generics and (more
or less) typesafe collections for a reason - their initial idea of
storing anything in a single collection didn't please even themselves.
This should be a hint that maybe Ada (and C++ for that matter) got it
right already, so why trying to work around it?

--
Maciej Sobczak
http://www.msobczak.com/




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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-03 18:28 Universal type shaunpatterson
2007-08-03 18:31 ` shaunpatterson
2007-08-03 19:10   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-08-03 20:35     ` Maciej Sobczak [this message]
2007-08-03 21:54       ` shaunpatterson
2007-08-04  1:10         ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-08-04  7:21       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-08-03 23:03 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-08-05 13:46 ` Martin Krischik
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