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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This was an interesting article. Btw, considering that you defined C# as a dynamic language (and surely it's more dynamic than C++) it would be reasonable do what programmers in dynamic languages would do: use reflection to check if such method exist. this would happen at runtime, so the stati crew may disagree. Or you could do like Nice does : allow a developer to declare interfaces and to say that some classes implements them after the class has been created, like:
class Foo {...}
interface Ifoo{...}
class Foo implements Ifoo {}