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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
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"Robert C. Leif" <rleif@rleif.com> writes:

> Microsoft is imitating Ada generics in its proposed next version of C#.

It looks a lot like the C++ signatures extension.  I don't think this
hasn't got to do much with C++ templates or Ada generics.