OT: on IDEs and code writing on steroids

Christopher Wright dhasenan at gmail.com
Wed May 20 18:15:35 PDT 2009


Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Christopher Wright" <dhasenan at gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:gv0p4e$uvv$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>> I can see certain potential benefits to the general way C# does generics, 
>>> but until the old (and I do mean old) issue of "There's an IComparable, 
>>> so why the hell won't MS give us an IArithmetic so we can actually use 
>>> arithmetic operators on generic code?" gets fixed (and at this point I'm 
>>> convinced they've never had any intent of ever fixing that), I don't care 
>>> how valid the reasoning behind C#'s general approach to generics is, the 
>>> actual state of C#'s generics still falls squarely into the categories of 
>>> "crap" and "almost useless".
>> IArithmetic is impossible in C# because operator overloads are static 
>> methods, and interfaces cannot specify static methods.
> 
> Then how does IComparable work? 

It uses a member function instead.



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