Generic Class Alias Syntax

[Robert Fraser]

eris wrote:
> bearophile Wrote:
> 
>> eris:
>>> Is there any way to get around including the exclamation point?<
>> !(int) tells the template what type is T. Somewhere you have to tell it what type of items you want to put inside it.
>> The alternative is like the old Java, where your collections contain references to Object, used to store wrappers (boxes) like Integer, etc, and you have to cast the items you pull out of them.
>> So I don't understand what you want.
> 
> (1) Cake
> (2) Eat it too
> 
> Sometimes you realize that you don't get to redefine the language syntax.
> 
> That's a bad, cold, lonely day.  :-)
> 
> bye

And then you come across Lisp, and see a glimmer of hope. An hour after 
that, you decide to hang yourself.