Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> It almost looks like it's describing inheritance. What is

> "First, what is an "amplifier of types"? By that I mean some system
> which lets you take a type and turn it into a more special type. For
> example, in C# consider Nullable<T>. This is an amplifier of types. It
> lets you take a type, say int, and add a new capability to that type,
> namely, that now it can be null when it couldn't before."

> other than inheritance? The next paragraphs also seem to be talking
> about inheritance.

> Of course the text then proceeds into blabbering about something that's
> hard to understand and seems quite inconsequential. Something about
> binding (which sounds like dynamic binding in inheritance, but apparently
> isn't?)

Still waiting for an answer to this...

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                                                          - Warp

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