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From: Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>
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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/