My point was that this is still C, I wasn't advocating using any of it. People have different preferences though, so if someone has 50,000 lines of code invest

My point was that this is still C, I wasn't advocating using any of it. People have different preferences though, so if someone has 50,000 lines of code invested in a C application, but wants to (for some reason) use generics in some way, perhaps this is their best option...