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This is something else. C++ has had parametric polymorphism in the form of template metaprogramming for a long time (the article on hashmaps even covers it). T
by leshow 8y ago
This is something else. C++ has had parametric polymorphism in the form of template metaprogramming for a long time (the article on hashmaps even covers it).
This is one of the reasons I don't really like the name 'generics', it's a little ambiguous.
- pjmlp 8y agoIt was the term coined by CLU, Ada, Modula-3, so it is already widely used in the academia.