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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Smarter Generics
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 07:31:31 +0200
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* Jean-Marc Bourguet:

> BTW C++ template is a turing-complete compile langage able to
> manipulate types and is the only implementation of genericity with
> such an expressing power.

Lisp macros offer similar flexibility.

> But it can be *very* inconveniant to use.

That's because the compile-time and run-time programming languages are
so different, it's not just the syntax that is a bit hairy.