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Re: Java vs C++

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On 06-02-2011 18:24, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> In message<4d4f042b$0$23753$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 05-02-2011 23:13, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>> In message<iil5ed$10m$1@news.eternal-september.org>, Joshua Cranmer
>>> wrote:
>>>> On 02/05/2011 10:38 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>> In message<4d4d8322$0$41117$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>, Silvio wrote:
>>>>>> ... templates and gener[ic]s are completely different beasts.
>>>>>
>>>>> “Completely” as in “having nothing in common”? Or is this some usage of
>>>>> “completely” that I wasn’t aware of?
>>>>>
>>>>> Please explain.
>>>>
>>>> Templates in C++ are basically advanced macros--each invocation of a
>>>> template type regenerates the class, so a Foo<int>   and a Foo<double>
>>>> are two completely different things.
>>>
>>> They are different things in Java as well.
>>
>> No. Same code.
>
> Same code in C++ too, then.

No.

C++ will generate two classes with two sets of code.

(at least that is what common compilers do - I don't know if
the standard actually requires it to)

Arne

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Re: Java vs C++ Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-05 09:38 -0500
  Re: Java vs C++ Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-02-06 21:12 -0500
  Re: Java vs C++ Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-02-07 12:26 +1300
  Re: Java vs C++ Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-06 15:27 -0500
    Re: Java vs C++ Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-06 20:15 -0500
  Re: Java vs C++ Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2011-02-06 16:45 +0100
  Re: Java vs C++ Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-06 20:51 -0500

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