I would not let the name distract you - it's equivalent to overloading, not "generics" (i.e. parametric polymorphism)
In that capacity I think it's quite a lot more sane than C++. Having a closed set of overloads, not having name mangling, not having complex name lookup rules are all a good thing.
I would not let the name distract you - it's equivalent to overloading, not "generics" (i.e. parametric polymorphism)
In that capacity I think it's quite a lot more sane than C++. Having a closed set of overloads, not having name mangling, not having complex name lookup rules are all a good thing.