Re: Generics vs. O-O?

[Bill Findlay <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk>]

On 01/08/2013 21:10, in article
fdf94891-3258-480d-a203-c157559e928f@googlegroups.com, "optikos@verizon.net"
<optikos@verizon.net> wrote:

> On Thursday, August 1, 2013 2:24:57 PM UTC-5, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> [... snip ...]
>> 5. Considering run-time effects generics obviously have none because it is
>> static polymorphism.
>> [... snip ...]
> 
> Not so fast.
...
> Conversely, Ada utilizes a single instance of machine code & static data for
> an Ada generic, regardless of the type parameters passed at compile-time.
 
Thare is nothing like a well founded, penetrating analysis of language
semantics.   And this is, indeed, nothing like one.

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