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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 2002:a6b:9f0d:: with SMTP id i13-v6mr4551094ioe.28.1529914841815; Mon, 25 Jun 2018 01:20:41 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:aca:ec43:: with SMTP id k64-v6mr142028oih.6.1529914841699; Mon, 25 Jun 2018 01:20:41 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!news.snarked.org!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!d7-v6no3752686itj.0!news-out.google.com!p13-v6ni747itf.0!nntp.google.com!d7-v6no3752678itj.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 01:20:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=194.39.218.10; posting-account=3cDqWgoAAAAZXc8D3pDqwa77IryJ2nnY NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.39.218.10 References: <5e86db65-84b9-4b5b-9aea-427a658b5ae7@googlegroups.com> <878t7u1cfm.fsf@nightsong.com> <776f3645-ed0c-4118-9b4d-21660e3bba4b@googlegroups.com> <87602fbu2g.fsf@nightsong.com> <87po0mziqt.fsf@nightsong.com> <30e271d8-0ef9-4986-8726-2b09c7fb9526@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Ada Successor Language From: Marius Amado-Alves Injection-Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 08:20:41 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:53287 Date: 2018-06-25T01:20:41-07:00 List-Id: This conjecture, that OO polymorphism is *always* preferrable to generics, is picking my mind big time. I've got a strong intuition that there are cases best served by generics. I'll try to find examples. Or if anyone has some please post.