[Haskell-cafe] Very silly

[Andrew Coppin]

Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> Hello Andrew,
>
> Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 12:15:04 AM, you wrote:
>
>   
>>> people that make critique on haskell type classes, don't take into
>>> account that it's unlike C++ templates, implemented via run-time
>>> dictionaries and other modules may define new instances
>>>   
>>>       
>
>   
>> Personally, I have no clue how C++ templates work [yet]. (As in, I'm 
>>     
>
> they are known as generics in java/c#
>   

I don't know C#, and when I did Java, generics didn't exist yet. [Eiffel 
has a feature of the same name, but I don't think it's related - 
certainly not in implementation anyway.]