Re: "Vector" Equivalent

In article <44eca36e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Brian Moelk says...

I'd personally rather have/wait for generics.

See other post - generics don't actually help in all the cases where
this capability would be of use.

The object list is a poor example because it is something that generics
could be used for. But specialising the type of an inherited property
from an existing base class isn't something that generics can do for you
aiui.

They are different things, even though in isolated examples they can
look very similar.


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Jolyon Smith
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