The term "generic programming" is too... er... generic. :)
Nope. It is not generic. It has it's definition made by the co-author of STL - A.Stepanov. And the Boost C++ library (many of us know it as Boost Python) standardise on the approach, AFAIK.
Ok, "too broad" then; Python already supports at least some aspects of generic programming (at least, in the sense that I think you mean it), so it'd be good to spell out what specific features you're referring to.
Python could have honest support of concepts. Everything else will be available with them.
"Concepts" is a pretty generic term too! ;-) Do you mean concepts as defined here: http://www.boost.org/more/generic_programming.html
?
And BTW, are we really disputing?
No, not at all - I'm just trying to better understand what you mean. Words like "generic" and "concepts" don't yet have a widely recognized, strict definition in the context of programming. If somebody has assigned some specific definition to them, that's great, it's just not universal yet so references and additional explanations are helpful.
-Dave -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
