Darren New wrote:
> Actually, one place I think C++ style templates beat out generics is in 
> this:

As I've written before, AFAIK these are two entirely unrelated 
technologies that do totally different things.

> In MS's simple game libraries, there's a class called GameComponent.
> It inherits from IUpdatable, IDrawable, and IMumble, each of which 
> provides the declaration of one of the main routines in a game (update, 
> draw, and initialize, respectively).
> 
> Now, if I wanted (and I do) to make a collection of things that act like 
> GameComponent objects but aren't necessarily game components, I don't 
> think I can do that in C#. I would have to have a collection 
> parameterized on all three of those interfaces. GameComponent supports a 
> bunch of things that i might not want to have to support, but I can't 
> make a collection that'll let me add "anything with those three 
> routines, including GameComponent."

Heh, just use a language that has first-class functions, and store a 
collection of functions. ;-)

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