William Wise wrote: > Has anyone thought of building support for generics into mono? I know > they're not in Java or .NET (yet) so it would be interesting if Mono could > beat them to the punch.
Indeed, it would be cool to play around generics in C#. IIRC, the C# generics proposal is modelled after GJ (which is based on a lot of type research done by Gilad Bracha, for example Strongtalk, a statically typed Smalltalk) and is build upon the ILX, an extended IL instruction set specially suited for all kinds of functional languages. I was searching for ILX and found this link -> http://research.microsoft.com/projects/ilx/fsharp.htm Unfortunately, this page if one of those which aren't correctly displayed by Mozilla (probably Front Page 5.0's fault). It about a new research language for .NET, F#, a mixture of OCaml, an object oriented functional programming language based on ML, and that parts of C# and other .NET languages that is required to interface the .NET framework. The ML type system has parameterized types which fullfill the same role as generic types in Java/C#. I might prefer using a language like F# over C#. Don't know yet. So please support ILX (I don't know wether this needs a new runtime) for mono :-) bye -- Stefan Matthias Aust // www.3plus4software.de // Inter Deum Et Diabolum Semper Musica Est _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
