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Re: What Does it Mean to Pass a Generic Class Itself as a Parameter?

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From	Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>
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Subject	Re: What Does it Mean to Pass a Generic Class Itself as a Parameter?
Date	Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:12:00 -0700 (PDT)
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KevinSimonson wrote:
>>> Can anyone tell me what's going on here? In {Wierd} itself is the
>>> {Wierd} that's being extended in the angle brackets the same {Wierd}
>>> that's being defined in this file?

On a tangential note, it's best practice to make identifiers, such as your class name 'Wierd', either sufficiently obviously not intended to be a natural-language word that spelling is not an issue, or to spell it the same as the natural-language word it resembles.  So, for example, to model a boundary, 'bnd' would be an acceptable variable name, but 'boundray' would not be.  The reason is that it's too difficult for maintainers to get near-miss spelling correct - the pull to spell the variable or type name the same as the natural-language word is just too strong.

So fix the spelling of 'Wierd'.

-- 
Lew

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What Does it Mean to Pass a Generic Class Itself as a Parameter? KevinSimonson <kvnsmnsn@hotmail.com> - 2011-10-10 08:01 -0700
  Re: What Does it Mean to Pass a Generic Class Itself as a Parameter? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-10-10 12:11 -0400
    Re: What Does it Mean to Pass a Generic Class Itself as a Parameter? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-10-10 12:56 -0400
  Re: What Does it Mean to Pass a Generic Class Itself as a Parameter? markspace <-@.> - 2011-10-10 09:12 -0700
    Re: What Does it Mean to Pass a Generic Class Itself as a Parameter? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-10-10 09:31 -0700
      Re: What Does it Mean to Pass a Generic Class Itself as a Parameter? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-10-10 12:12 -0700
        Re: What Does it Mean to Pass a Generic Class Itself as a Parameter? Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2011-10-10 13:32 -0700
          Re: What Does it Mean to Pass a Generic Class Itself as a Parameter? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-10-10 16:40 -0400
          Re: What Does it Mean to Pass a Generic Class Itself as a Parameter? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-10-10 14:29 -0700
  Re: What Does it Mean to Pass a Generic Class Itself as a Parameter? Screamin Lord Byron <scre@min.dot> - 2011-10-10 19:07 +0200
  Re: What Does it Mean to Pass a Generic Class Itself as a Parameter? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-10-11 02:08 -0400

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