From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,101730fbd6919745 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-03 01:00:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.iucc.ac.il!not-for-mail From: "Ehud Lamm" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada & .Net (Rotor) Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 11:48:48 +0200 Organization: Ehud Lamm Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: di2-19.dialin.huji.ac.il X-Trace: news.iucc.ac.il 1017823878 4755 132.64.12.19 (3 Apr 2002 08:51:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.iucc.ac.il NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 08:51:18 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22040 Date: 2002-04-03T11:48:48+02:00 List-Id: "Juergen Pfeifer" wrote in message news:a8ddsd$2nh$01$1@news.t-online.com... > Generics are an interesting topic wrt the problem whether or not this can be > done on the CLR level. > Is it possible to have a generic written in one language and instantiated in > another language? At > least the both languages must agree on the semantics of genericity. I think > this is a current area of > research inside one of the MS dotnet research teams. Those interested in generics for the CLR shoud read the paper linked from http://lambda.weblogs.com/discuss/msgReader$1450 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN '00 conference on Programming language design and implementation (PLDI'00). Design and implementation of generics for the .NET Common language runtime. Andrew Kennedy, Don Syme Ehud