Microsoft has made it very clear that generics will be added to the spec. It was left out of version 1 because of the amount of time it would take to do it right. I have never heard of any date other than "when its ready," but is has been worked on since the early days of the project. Dennis Hayes
From: "A Rafael D Teixeira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Mono-list] FYI : Mono on the MSDN site Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 10:22:58 -0300 > > Their study on "generics" support is a prime > > example, being covered by > > copyrights, and possibly patents, from Microsoft > > Research. > > > > For the sake of many mono-hackers: "generics" is > > something akin to C++ > > templates, but that can also expand AT RUNTIME with > > FULL TYPE-SAFETY. That > > would make possible to have typed ArrayLists, as we > > now have typed arrays. James Michael DuPont replied: >That sounds interesting. >Is it in the C# ECMA spec, i did not see that yet. No, it�s not in ECMA, and isn�t on .NET 1.0, it�s as I said an Microsoft Research study. Rafael Teixeira Brazilian Developer _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
