From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: generics as illness -;) (was: Re: Anybody ...)
Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 15:13:11 +0100
Date: 2003-01-05T15:13:11+01:00 [thread overview]
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Alexandre E. Kopilovitch wrote:
> Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote:
>>
>>"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
>>
>> > Generics in any form is an illness of programming languages.
>>
>>Why?
>
> Perhaps the origin of this feeling is that they (generics, templates,
> etc.) are unclear conceptually, above the programming level.
Yes. [I tried to explain my point of view in the original thread]
> But there is good exception: functors in Standard ML.
Unfortunately I do not know about Standard ML.
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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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2003-01-04 23:36 generics as illness -;) (was: Re: Anybody ...) Alexandre E. Kopilovitch
2003-01-05 14:13 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2003-01-06 4:52 ` Kevin Cline
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