What is the best way to deal with this?

[Timon Gehr]

On 02/24/2013 04:59 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
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> D is much different (and better IMO)
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IMO The best way to think about it is that the two approaches are not 
comparable. D templates are a kind of hygienic macro system for 
declarations. Java does not have this. Java generics make the type 
system more expressive. D lacks this kind of expressiveness.