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Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:

> Markus E Leypold wrote:
>> the inferiority of the automatic instantion approach.
>  > In C++ the "identity" of an instance needs to be determined
>  > by the parameters. In Ada (and many other languages with
>  > functors) by the act of instantiation.
>
> But without the C++ way of identity, and without specialization,
> the language cannot do template metaprogramming, as is impossible
> in Ada. That's a trade-off I'll gladly make.

Me too. I'll gladly forgo "template metaprogramming" for explicit
instantition.

>> Groan. How ugly.
>
> Well, maybe they'll add it in one day. But, Lord knows, this isn't
> the ugliest workaround that C++ requires.

No. Which in itself speaks volumes. C++ is only a big workaround
(around the deficiencies of C when use how it wasn't designed: As a
high level language).

Regards -- Markus