What is your Opinion about Generics ?

[Shyam K Pananghat]

What is your Opinion about Generics in .Net 2.0. The good parts.. bad aspects. and it's actual use in designing a good architecture.

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[J4amieC]

Thats kind of like asking an oppinion of a hammer. If you're banging in nails, a hammer is great - if you're trying to paint your spare room its not quite the tool for the job. Use generics for what they're for.

[Shyam K Pananghat]

Ok.. And that yourself have told that "Use generics for what they're for." And i am expeing the answer "what they're for". explain your thoughts if you dont mind. rather than a negative answer. Let others also post their thoughts. we can have a collective set of good things which will defenetive contain some good points that even you were unaware or not thought about till this point of time. :) :cool:

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[J4amieC]

If you picked up a book, or did some online research, you would know exactly what generics do, when to use them, and what they're "for". This forum is to provide specific answers to coding problems in C#, not to do your research for you.

[Shyam K Pananghat]

Please do understand that i dont want to do any research and right now im not of any use on generics. :mad:

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[Lost User]

Skpananghat wrote:

i dont want to do any research

And you expect us to share our opinions? What's the value of an opinion if it isn't based on experience or research? QPQ, I'll give my opinion on generics once you can tell me in three lines (or less) what a "generic" is and how I might recognize one when I trip over it :)

I are troll :)

[Megidolaon]

I certainly love generics. I use them all the time, I don't get why so many people still use arrays in C# when only few or rarely used .NET methods need them. Enough opinion?

[Lost User]

Megidolaon wrote:

Enough opinion?

Yeah, but my point was that an opinion isn't a research-tool for the lazy. I like red, but that opinion doesn't make red a "good" color for the walls or the ceiling. Asking generally for peoples' opinion because one is too damn lazy is like asking what color your ceiling should be. It should be red. Because I like red. The TS should avoid generics because his "research" (which consists of the collection of answers to his question, therefore our posted opinions) state that "red" is better than "generic". :rolleyes: Without the usual sarcasm; I enjoy using generics as it increases my productivity, compared to handwriting strong-typed collections. It saves the time that is required to launch and execute CodeSmith, and I enjoy having a built-in collection over an external generated collection as reduces complexity and improves readability and maintainability.

I are troll :)

[PIEBALDconsult]

As good as they are, they don't go far enough.