Also, it's worth mentioning Julia exists as language precedent here: it's got generic runtime types in the form of both classes and type aliases, despite being a dynamically typed, JIT-compiled language. On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 04:54 Isiah Meadows <[email protected]> wrote:
> Reflection would be nice, but that's about the only use case I can think > of. Being able to tell a typed number array from a typed object array would > be useful for some array processing optimizations and maybe stream > processing optimization, but that's about it AFAIK. > On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 04:42 Claude Pache <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From what I understand (that is, not much), class templates are useful in >> strongly typed languages, so that one can have a family of classes that >> share the same implementation but that derive from different types; e.g. >> Stack<int> for stacks of ints and Stack<string> for stacks of strings. In >> JS, you can have one Stack class that accepts both ints and strings, so >> that this use case doesn’t apply (or, at least, it is not a necessity). >> >> But I'm sure there are other use cases. What are they, and are they >> compelling enough? >> >> —Claude >> >> Le 15 janv. 2019 à 19:59, IdkGoodName Vilius <[email protected]> >> a écrit : >> >> See: >> https://github.com/CreatorVilius/ecmascript-proposals/blob/master/proposal-class-templates.md >> >> >> I think having Class Templates in JavaScript would be awesome thing and >> should be implemented. But that’s just my opinion. >> _______________________________________________ >> es-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> es-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >> >
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