I can get the same benefict from functional languages+generics, or dynamic languages.
"Simen kjaeraas" <simen.kja...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:op.vkxy6xx2vxi...@biotronic-pc.lan... > Paulo Pinto <pj...@progtools.org> wrote: > >> Sorry but I still don't get it. >> >> Do you mean that the types that erased and the same code is generated? >> >> Then let me say that .Net generics get generated on the fly and JITed for >> each >> different type. >> >> Eiffel and Modula-3 generics also have specific generated code for each >> type. >> >> The major difference regarding C++ code is that the linkers are smarter >> and >> are >> able to remove duplicates of the generated code for the same set of type >> arguments. > > The point is, D and C++ templates can do a lot more than simple generics. > Generics is limited to simple copying and pasting of type names, whereas > templates can build a DSL parser for you, let you choose whether a > function should be parallelized, a type thread-safe, etc. > > > -- > Simen
