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Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> If not possible, then it is not a case where generics may be applied. My 
> point is, anywhere generics work, the specific type can be tacked down.

That doesn't seem correct to me. With generics, I can declare a container
that holds a specific type, and then pas sthat container around to other
(generic) routines, and they all know the type of the container's contents.

Without generics, all I have is a container that holds some base type. How
is the compiler to know that this container holds only a certain specific
type of object?