From: kcline17@hotmail.com (Kevin Cline)
Subject: Re: generics as illness -;) (was: Re: Anybody ...)
Date: 5 Jan 2003 20:52:08 -0800
Date: 2003-01-06T04:52:08+00:00 [thread overview]
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"Alexandre E. Kopilovitch" <aek@vib.usr.pu.ru> wrote in message news:<mailman.1041723482.14856.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>...
> 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.
I don't find them unclear at all. And what alternative solution is proposed?
Java doesn't have generics and as a result Java containers are not type-safe.
So some rather weak form of generics is being added to Java.
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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
2003-01-06 4:52 ` Kevin Cline [this message]
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