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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Yes, you are right, jeff, /current/ RTTI is *not* as complete reflection system as the .net/java reflection (altough XTI is).
But this fact does not change the fact that we are seeing many weak articles being published here at OSNews, as the current one.
There is a series of flaws in the current article: not very-well researched (restricted generics where thoroughly studied to inclusion in c++ during the last ISO std round), weak/incorrect comparisons with c++, boxing/unboxing not mentioned/considered.
OSNews used to be more strict/edited (editorialized?); altough Eugenia is _not_ completely unbiased, her articles are usually very good. But the other articles that are entering are deserving some questioning/polishing/removal of factual errors and flamebaits. IMHO.
Obviously, Eugenia can say to me: Zab, if you are not liking, leave. I'll be hurt, but it's ok.