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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand>
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Subject: Re: Java vs C++
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In message <4d4f47bb$0$23760$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> 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)

See, it’s clear you’re hung up on specifics of particular implementations, 
not on how the language feature is defined at all.