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> You can’t do that in any other language. Except languages with parametric polymorphism, such as ML and Haskell.

• 0db532a0 8y ago
  Or C++ and Java.
• rkangel 8y ago
  Not quite right, in other languages you (a) can't, and (b) don't have to (thankfully). The compiler doing my offsetting for me using type information is much safer and more reliable.