Linked by Rüdiger Klaehn on Thu 5th Aug 2004 05:00 UTC
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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Last I can remember there are a few definitions of the word dynamic. I took dynamic to mean run-time oriented if that makes sense. In other words when the word dynamic is used it can mean that something is happening at runtime. In this situations what could that be... oh yeah generic type substitutions. Just because the user of a langauge isn't in control of dynamic features of a langauge doesn't make them non dynamic. It is simply a different definition of the word dynamic which is used more regularly and maybe only recently so to mean langauge features that alow program constructs to by highly configureable by the user or the program itself (ex. code changes or runtime).