This was a rhetoric question. I perfectly know why I can't do that in C++. C++ does not allow this because of particular generics implementation (done by static

This was a rhetoric question. I perfectly know why I can't do that in C++. C++ does not allow this because of particular generics implementation (done by static compile-time macro expansion), not because those two features are inherently contradictory. In fact, they are completely orthogonal and Java/Scala/C# have no problems with that, despite being statically typed.