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Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> Yes. Only "hope" is IMO a wrong word. I think it is indeed possible to make 
> tagged types as efficient as fully inlined macro expansions, provided that 
> the corresonding class-wide routines are also inlined.

I think that without generics, even using a clever compiler which does
the equivalent of generic expansion when routines are called with
known types, there's still lots of opportunity to lose type information.
For example, lack of generics means that your container classes will
not know what they're holding, and you're going to run into Java-like
issues there.

Frankly, I just don't see the point. What is it about a table of
pointers to functions that's so almighty appealing that everything
needs to be expressed in terms of it?