[Grace-core] Class syntax and type parameters

[Kim Bruce]

Java had a good concept with a lousy implementation (for business competitive reasons).  It's well understood how to do a half decent job (Clu showed the way in 1974!) -- and we will do it.

Kim



On Nov 11, 2014, at 6:05 PM, Marco Servetto <marco.servetto at gmail.com> wrote:

> It is now a long time that grace is fighting to balance
> Generics -- Incremental typing -- Traits --- Classes as derived concepts.
> 
> Why we want genercis a la java instead of generational code a la c++
> templates (but safer)
> 
> Why we can not have
> class PointList =Collections.list(Point) ??
> 
> are we sure that for a Didactic language, having parametric
> polimorphism is a good idea?
> Why are we so sure?
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