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Sean1708 on July 14, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Toward Go 2

Would you mind going into a bit more depth about Eiffel's generics? It's not obvious to me from Wikipedia how they differ from normal parametric polymorphism.

vram22 on July 14, 2017 [–]

Did you read this, which is linked to from my earlier link?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_programming#Genericity...

I may not be able to throw more light on it than that, sorry, since I'm not an expert on these areas, just interested.

Sean1708 on July 14, 2017 | [–]

Thanks, I completely missed that "Basic/Unconstrained genericity" was a subsection of "Genericity in Eiffel" when I first saw that page.

vram22 on July 14, 2017 | | [–]

NP.

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