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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: generics as illness -;)  (was: Re: Anybody ...)
Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 15:13:11 +0100
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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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