Re: Introducing "Array Of" RFC

On 20/01/14 19:37, Philip Sturgeon wrote:

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote:

This is a quite good point. If we're introducing limited-scope Generics here, what's wrong with using Generics syntax, especially since it will be familiar to C#, C++ and Java users?

If we use the generics syntax for not-generics, then we can't EVER implement generics properly, so that would be an incredibly bad idea.

But these *are* generics. If we add "proper generics" in future, Array<int> would keep meaning the same thing, though I suppose we'd need to allow implict casting of Arrays of ints. That's all that'd change. This doesn't block adding proper generics, it adds a weak and limited form of them for arrays only, which could be improved in performance with "proper" generics later if we so wished. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/