No typedef in C# 2.0

Jorgen Sigvardsson

But still, it shouldn't be all that hard to implement, even in a multilanguage environment such as .NET. Good music: In my rosary[^]

Paul Selormey

Generics != template in C++. Unlike the template the Generics is a runtime thing and typedef, I think will defeat this purpose since each typedef causes the compiler to exit a class, not object instance. This is my little knowledge of it. Best regards, Paul. Jesus Christ is LOVE! Please tell somebody.

Paul Selormey

Generics != template Best regards, Paul. Jesus Christ is LOVE! Please tell somebody.

Alvaro Mendez

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: C# != C++; Ouch! :^) You had to say it, didn't you? :) Alvaro

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Jorgen Sigvardsson

And...? Good music: In my rosary[^]

Jorgen Sigvardsson

There's still typing involved with generics. If you try

List<int> l = new List<double>();

you will get the error

error CS0029: Cannot implicitly convert type 'System.Collections.Generic.List<double>' to 'System.Collections.Generic.List<int>'

No matter how you implement generics, you must make types out of them, considering the fact that .NET is strongly typed. A typedef would be merely an alias for a type, and should in my point of view, not be that hard to implement. Good music: In my rosary[^]

Matt Newman

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: C# != C++; :wtf: OMG are you serious?!?!?! I thought the # was just a cool way of drawing two +'s :rolleyes: Matt Newman
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Matt Gerrans

Wouldn't it be C++++ in that case? :-D Matt Gerrans

Nemanja Trifunovic

It is my understanding that one of the major goals of C# team is to keep their language relatively small and easy to learn, even at the price of omitting some useful and powerful features.

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Long Gone

Matt Newman wrote: OMG are you serious?!?!?! I thought the # was just a cool way of drawing two +'s :laugh: Don't shoot! I'm only the piano player messenger. Beatress

Long Gone

Matt Gerrans wrote: Wouldn't it be C++++ in that case? Only if you write C## Don't shoot! I'm only the piano player messenger. Beatress

Matt Gerrans

Look more closely. Matt Gerrans

Paul Selormey

typedef will be misleading. Anytime you do List<int> in C++, the compiler generates a class for you at compile time. The typedef in C++ is simply doing what the compiler will be doing anyway, but giving the generated class of the type List<int> a name you can remember. The Generics is designed to avoid the compile time class emitting, so throwing in a typedef will give a wrong image. This my understanding of the Generics concept and why it is maintained like that in MC++/CLR-C++ along side templates. Best regards, Paul. Jesus Christ is LOVE! Please tell somebody.

Rei Miyasaka

Remember in the Windows API how when you hunt through the jumble of typedefs and #defines, ints and HANDLEs and DWORDs and FAR and a bunch of other stuff turn to be the same thing? Or how MessageBox() and MessageBoxA() and _MessageBox() and __MessageBox() were all the same thing? I think the goal is to discourage that sort of thing. It'd be easy to use but it'd also be easier to abuse. Integrity is a key design objective in .NET.

Long Gone

Matt Newman wrote: I thought the # was just a cool way of drawing two +'s # => ++ so ## => ++++ Matt Gerrans wrote: Look more closely. Obviously I am missing something. P.S. – for all you anal retentive folks out there tempted to comment on my spelling or grammar save your energy. I don’t care. Don't shoot! I'm only the piano player messenger. Beatress

Vagif Abilov

Agree. How many various 32-bit types will we find in Win SDK headers. I guess several hundred. Вагиф Абилов MCP (Visual C++) Oslo, Norway If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think how stupid war is, and while they are thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them. Jack Handey.

Matt Gerrans

Obviously:

# == ++ == ++++
++

QED ;P Matt Gerrans

Rei Miyasaka

Or you can take 2 +s, extend the lines and arrange them diagonally:

| | | |
-+--- | -+--+-
| + | = | |
| ---+- -+--+-
| | | |

Matt Gerrans

Two distorted +'s perhaps. Matt Gerrans

Rei Miyasaka

:)