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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: why learn C?
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On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:05:00 GMT, Hyman Rosen wrote:

> The purely static
> types of C++ is what permits automatic instantiation
> to work. Having dynamic types is what leads to Ada's
> requirement of explicit instantiation.

I would say that it is rather named (vs. structural) equivalence which
makes explicit instantiation necessary.

C++ has types algebra limited to compile-time only expressions. Is it good?
I don't think so. Does it imply a need in templates to evaluate some of
these expressions? I doubt it.

To me generics in a language merely indicate a lack of imagination of the
language designers.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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