"Disillusioned_01" <> wrote:
>Anyboby aware of any MS initiative to provide an c++ STL
>stle Lib withc# Generics coming in .net 2.0!?(I guessed it)
>
There will be a generics version of the collections in the
System.Collections.Generics
namespace ,that much was suggested in Juval Lowy's article
"An Introduction to C# Generics" from August 2003
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...p_generics.asp
but nothing approaching the STL.
Generic Containers should perform better and are inherently
typesafe (no casting required).
You have to keep in mind that generics are not templates. If
I understand it correctly generics are not a feature of the
implementation language but of the IL - it would follow that
the generic data type is only expanded once the IL is
compiled to native code - delaying the potential bloat as
long as possible.
Generics only allow types as template parameters - so some
of the meta-programming stunts that Alexandrescu pulled in
his LOKI library just aren't possible with generics.
Meanwhile some people having been using this 'freeware
template-based code generator'
http://www.ericjsmith.net/codesmith/
to fill their needs.
Anyway read the above article and judge for yourself.
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