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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]
Message-ID: <n0rhv3$334$1@loke.gir.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87611qvkpr.fsf@jester.gateway.sonic.net

"Paul Rubin" <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote in message 
news:87611qvkpr.fsf@jester.gateway.sonic.net...
> "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.



  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-28 22:24 UTC|newest]

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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