"stephan beal" <stephan@wanderinghorse.net> wrote in message
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> Walter wrote:
> > The D Programming Language, www.digitalmars.com/d/, has sophisticated
> > templates as well, including things like partial ordering and partial
> > specialization, all with a much easier to use syntax than C
> ]
> Java will also get templates soon:
> http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/releases/gener
> ics/
>
> But without the ability to typedef i would imagine that they will be
> effectively unusuable for nested template definitions (too unreadable
> and
> unmaintainable, IMO). For example, nobody is going to want to write (or
> read) this all the time:
>
> Foo<Bar<FooBar>> myobj;
>
> when they could instead have this:
> FooBarType myobj;

D has both C++ style weak typedefs (aka type aliases) and strong typedefs.


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