[1046] in java-interest
Re: Overloading & New
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (vizbiz.com!green@vizbiz.uucp)
Thu Aug 17 18:35:23 1995
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 14:55:03 -0400
From: vizbiz.com!green@vizbiz.uucp
To: parrt@parr-research.com
Cc: francois@coplanet.fr, gary@Intrepid.COM, java-interest@java.sun.com,
johnm@alumni.EECS.Berkeley.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199508162007.NAA06322@lonewolf.parr-research.com> (message from
Terence John Parr on Wed, 16 Aug 1995 16:07:32 -0400)
>>>>> "Terence" == Terence John Parr <parrt@parr-research.com> writes:
[Time to stop lurking!]
Terence> Uh oh...not templates. Templates are needed in C++ for
Terence> really two reason:
Terence> (i) lack of fully dynamic messages
Terence> (ii) interfaces.
In practice, you may want to use templates for performance reasons.
Dynamic messages and interfaces both incur runtime costs (which may be
eliminated in *some* cases with clever optimizations). Oh - and
they can be good for strong static type checking.
Terence> PLEASE: All C++ people please go back to C++ and quit
Terence> trying to turn Java into an interpreted C++. Gawd!!!
Terence> This is ridiculous! Templates are a total nightmare to
Terence> implement/get-right in C++.
True - but I still would like to see a simple parameterized type
mechanism added to Java. I have a lot of experience in this area and
have found them easy to implement and extremely useful. My
understanding is that the implementation side of Java arrays lay the
foundation for such a mechanism.
Terence> If you haven't learned your lesson with C++, you
Terence> deserve each other.
Oh Ter - that hurts! :-)
Anthony
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