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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Generics and Child Packages
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 22:58:27 +0100
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"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:

> The whole idea of child units of generics is fatally flawed in my
> view. It just doesn't work semantically.

Maybe not, but it does _work_ (at least in the Booch Components, in at
least 3 compilers). I do realise that the process needs a lot of
explaining the first few times a user is faced with it, and I'm sure
that the Containers' use of single-instantiation (at least until we come
to synchronised queues ... ok, not the same) is proper.