On 2007-06-16, Paul Rubin <http> wrote: > Neil Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I vote for C++ as being astoundingly complex. But it provides >> complex features, e.g.,the machanisms it provides to deal with >> multiple inheritance, or generic, type-safe code. > > It gets off-topic but I'm not sure what advantage templates are > supposed to have over ML-like polymorphism.
I don't know that much about ML. I know is does a really nice job of generic containers, as does C++. But can it 'foo' any type as easily as C++? template <class T> T foo(T); As an aside, templates are abusable for many sorts of valuable compile-time computations and type arithmetic, though I'd never write that code myself--it looks like death. C++ templates allow for fancy duck-typing in C++, which Python programmers love. The STL is a good example of the power of duck-typing (though it oughta been called quack-typing). -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
