On 25-Jan-2000, S. Alexander Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This discussion feels like deja-vu all over again!
> What is wrong with the various generic programming extensions that have
> already been discussed? Derive, PolyP and their progeny?
I don't think there's anything fundamentally wrong with them;
but I think they only address a small part of the
things that reflection (in the wider sense that we've
been discussing in this thread) is useful for.
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