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From: Eric Hughes <eric.eh9@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: User-defined type attributes (replacing genericity)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:19:47 -0700 (PDT)
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On Mar 14, 12:58 pm, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
wrote:
> Anyway semantically
> there is no any difference between generic and class-wide bodies. Both act
> on a class of types.

Not every similarity between types is also a class-wide similarity.
Without this essential distinction, I cannot begin to have a useful
discussion about generics.

I'm out.

Eric