OT: on IDEs and code writing on steroids

[Christopher Wright]

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.