Re: Why Generics?


"Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Eric Sosman wrote:
>
>> It was the C++ weenies, definitely. You're entirely
>> correct: The C++ saboteurs have contaminated Java with
>> generics simply and only to make the language unattractive
>> and cause its ultimate demise. The Java people have been
>> suckered into kissing the Bjarne Stone.
>
> Funny thing, I know you intended this as sarcasm, but I agree with it as
> written. Well. not quite literally -- I don't suppose there's any
> conspiracy -- but I do think that generics have been introduced out of
> ill-considered, or unconsidered, C++-envy.

Why C++, in particular? The next version of C# has generics, and the
current one has auto-boxing, variable-length argument lists, for-loops over
collections, etc. Given that Java competes for mindshare with .NET, I think
competition with C# is a more likely motive for the 1.5 changes.


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