Templates and Generics

Insomnia and being a workaholic is an interesting combination. It is amazing how much work can be accomplished in the eight hours before everyone else comes to work. J

Anyways, I spent some time working on specifying generics in C++ yesterday so I figured I'd write about that today. Perhaps the most important message regarding generics is that they are not templates. That is evident in the C++ language design as it supports both generics and templates. At the PDC, I heard comments such as "generics are templates done right". This, sadly, is a misinformed opinion that too many people share



Templates and Generics