One of the most awaited features of Microsoft .NET 2.0 is generics. Generics promise to increase type safety, improve performance, reduce code duplication and eliminate unnessecary casts. The most obvious application of generics in the framework class library are the generic collections in the new System.Collections.Generic namespace. Much has been written about those, but they are not the topic of this article.
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Would it be possible to write, say, a generic sorting function without having the primitives implicitly boxed? This can't be done with java generics, and it's a real shame (and pain) (in java it's even worse, there's no operator overloading.)
Would it be possible to write, say, a generic sorting function without having the primitives implicitly boxed? This can't be done with java generics, and it's a real shame (and pain) (in java it's even worse, there's no operator overloading.)