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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: OO, C++, and something much better!
Date: 1997/01/08
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Date: 1997-01-08T00:00:00+00:00
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Michael says

"ability to expand them at compile time without losing optimizations, unlike
Ada generics whose paradigm is to expand at run-time and remove staticness
from expressions."

incomprehensible confusion. there is no "run-time" expansion of generics'
in Ada, and there is no issue of losing optimizations ...