> re: generics: If they aren't implemented carefully, they could unacceptably complicate the language. Can you explain why? For example, simple generics which

> re: generics: If they aren't implemented carefully, they could unacceptably complicate the language. Can you explain why? For example, simple generics which could be implemented as regex doesn't seem to complicated? Am I missing something? For example (in Java), an ArrayList <String> could be turned into a StringArrayList by a basic internal pre-processor.