Paul> Oops: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_programming
Paul> This helps. But I don't see how it's different from what used to
Paul> be called polymorphism.
I think of generic programming as polymorphism for statically typed
languages. Using the example from the Wikipedia reference, you can't have a
generic List class that can hold a list of ints as well as a list of animals
without using templates.
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