Re: JESS: Jess and Java Generics

2006-07-02 Thread friedman_hill ernest j
I think Ozsariyildiz, S.S. wrote: > > I will give very general overview that I can think of. > 1) two ways support one implicit support just extension to jess reflection > 2) explicit support making the templates type-checked enums and annotations > defined. May also include definition of met

Re: JESS: Jess and Java Generics

2006-07-02 Thread James C. Owen
As an "old Jess" programmer and an "old C/C++ programmer, I remember the "cool" part of using STL in C++. Now we have AOP in Java and Java Generics. All of this really is "cool" and adds "power" to the programmer. HOWEVER (which means that you can forget all the former platitudes mention

RE: JESS: Jess and Java Generics

2006-07-02 Thread Ozsariyildiz, S.S.
I think Ozsariyildiz, S.S. wrote: > Is there going to be support for Java Generics for the future releases of > JESS? If there is one what are the plans? An interesting question. Jess is weakly typed, and generics are a mechanism for making things more strongly type-checked at compile time; they

Re: JESS: Jess and Java Generics

2006-07-02 Thread friedman_hill ernest j
I think Ozsariyildiz, S.S. wrote: > Is there going to be support for Java Generics for the future releases of > JESS? If there is one what are the plans? An interesting question. Jess is weakly typed, and generics are a mechanism for making things more strongly type-checked at compile time; they

JESS: Jess and Java Generics

2006-07-02 Thread Ozsariyildiz, S.S.
Is there going to be support for Java Generics for the future releases of JESS? If there is one what are the plans?   Thanks