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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Rich: You and I may have different ideas of what "glorified macros" means. C++ templates do more than just plop code in place; at compile time, the compiler can figure out a lot through templates about what class to generate. Specialized templates are an example of this. The template system is actually turing complete; I've seen it used to solve problems. The current C/C++ User's Journal also has an interesting article about using templates for loop unrolling.