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Dinamic languages don't need generics

• brndn 11y ago
  Can you explain?
  • pmarin 11y ago
    In dynamic languages the type is known at runtime.
  • nostrademons 11y ago
    The point of generics is so that you can use the same code with many different types. With dynamic typing, you can use the same code with anything, it just complains at runtime if you call an operation that isn't supported on a particular type. It's like every operation is implicitly generic. You could look at generics as a way to bring some of the flexibility of dynamic languages to a static type system, so you get the expressivity benefits without sacrificing type-safety.