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0 pointsseivan10y ago0 comments

I see. In e.g Swift, you'd have to define before hand that T1 could be used with <= while here I guess it adds in the method for "each" T1 that could be used with it.

I assume this just duplicates the method for each type at compile time instead of at runtime try to figure it out?

Damnit, now I wanna rewrite back to C++.

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jschwartzi10y ago

In C++ it just prints an error message and halts compilation if you try to use a type which doesn't support the semantics of the template function. It does not add functions which are not declared already.

aldanor10y ago

That's what C++ concepts are for (maybe we'll see them in C++17).

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