From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: Task interface and entries with aliased parameters
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 17:24:35 -0500
Date: 2015-10-28T17:24:35-05:00 [thread overview]
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"Paul Rubin" <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
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> "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:
>> Sharing interfaces *sounds* nice, but it's impossible in practice because
>> in
>> almost all circumstances you need parameters of different types for
>> different "instances" ("instances" not in the Ada sense). Think container
>> interfaces, for example - the element type is almost always different.
>
> Java has generics for that now.
Sure, and once you have generics, you have no need for interfaces. (At least
if you assume, as I do, that static checking is better than dynamic
checking.)
Randy.
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-21 8:54 Task interface and entries with aliased parameters Hadrien Grasland
2015-10-21 15:52 ` AdaMagica
2015-10-21 17:01 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-10-21 18:06 ` Hadrien Grasland
2015-10-21 19:21 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-10-21 19:45 ` Hadrien Grasland
2015-10-21 20:19 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-10-21 19:46 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-10-21 19:59 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-10-28 17:48 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-10-28 19:34 ` Bob Duff
2015-10-28 22:23 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-10-28 19:47 ` Paul Rubin
2015-10-28 22:24 ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2015-10-28 21:13 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-10-30 19:48 ` Eryndlia Mavourneen
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