[GD-General] Simulating constrained genericity in C++

[Brian H. <bri...@py...>]

http://sivut.koti.soon.fi/epulkkin/instructive/simulating-constrained-ge
nericity.html

I had no idea there was so much crap involved with generic programming.
Eiffel so far seems like the best implementation I've seen, but the
language (and implementations) has so many other issues that it doesn't
look feasible for tool development.

So back to Java and Obj-C I go =)

Brian

P.S. After looking at the collection classes in STL, Java, Eiffel and
Obj-C, I'm surprised there hasn't been some reasonable paper written
that describes the architectural decisions each made, and what language
specific features enabled/denied certain aspects.  Lack of constrained
genericity seems like a royal bitch in C++; same with a lack of
introspection, reflection and single reliable hierarchies (e.g. in Java
and Obj-C you can query an object for its class; in Java all object's
have a "toString" method; etc.).