Yigal Chripun wrote:
I think you miss the point here.
Generics and code generation are two separate and orthogonal features
that where conflated together by C++.
It's kind of odd, then, that for example the Generative Programming book
(http://www.generative-programming.org) chose to treat the two notions
in conjunction.
while you can do powerful stuff with templates it smells of trying to
write Haskel code with the C pre-proceesor.
if you want to see a clean solution to this issue look at Nemerle.
essentially, their AST Macro system provides multi-level compilation.
c++ templates are a horrible hack designed to ween off C programmers
from using the pre-processor and the D templates provide mostly cosmetic
changes to this. they do not solve the bigger design issue.
What is the bigger design issue?
Andrei
