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"kevin  cline" <kevin.cline@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mar 30, 4:09 am, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
> wrote:
>> On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 07:44:31 +0000 (UTC), Lutz Donnerhacke wrote:
>> > * kevin  cline wrote:
>> >> "The big difference is that C++ templates allow type checking during
>> >> compile-time, so that no overhead neither in memory space nor in
>> >> runtime is incurred. In this respect, C++ templates ARE MORE POWERFUL
>> >> than Ada generics."
>>
>> > This is correct. C++-Templates itself are a Lisp dialect and Turing complete.
>>
>> One should be careful with such statements. In fact it is apples and
>> oranges, because whatever power templates might have, they are *not*
>> executed on the target machine.
>
> So what?  The discussion was about compile-time type safety, and the
> point is that C++ templates, being Turing complete, allow more
> thorough compile type checking than is possible in Ada.

I fail to see what the one has to do with the other. Indeed, I'd
rather not write my own type checker in a lispish compile time
language.

Regards -- Markus