Re: [Vala] Hi All. Question about Generics?

[Gerald Edward Butler <gerald edward butler gmail com>]

Wow! I'm an idiot. I just found the documentation for this in the Vala
Tutorial. I don't know how I missed it the first time I read it.

Please ignore my rather silly question.

Thanks.

On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 23:44 -0500, Gerald Edward Butler wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> New to Vala. Looks interesting. Is there any documentation or
> discussion (mailing list logs, etc) that detail the how generics are
> implemented in Vala? In particular, how do you handle the issue of
> multiple template instantiation that many early C++ compilers had?
>
> That is, if I create a template/generic class such as:
>
> public class MyFoo : Foo<T> {
>
>     ...
> }
>
> And I instantiate an instance of it:
>
> var my_foo_tv = new MyFoo( Television );
>
> And I do the same instantiation later in another module?
>
> Is the generics implementation entirely run-time based? Or, does it
> compile a class specific for the type much like C++? If like C++, how
> does it handle definition of the same template instance in multiple
> modules? How does it resolve the linkage across compiled modules?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Gerald E Butler
> gerald edward butler gmail com   
>
> http://goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/



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