Re: Shared game-data

On 30 Apr 2006 15:56:39 -0700, JOG wrote:

> .... Programmers need the tools - a relation template in the
> STL, and support for RA in <algorithm> anyone? Given I still can't even
> use a standard hashmap cross platform yet, I'm not holding my breath.

Relations do not need templates. (Nobody needs them. (:-)) What is needed is generic programming. Templates represent a rather bleak example of. But that's aside.

As for generic programming (=programming in terms of sets of types, as opposed to individual types). RM can be considered as one. It has some operations which can be viewed as ones producing new types (algebra of types) or defined over sets of types (OO classes are closures of types sets.) But to be fully supported, RM requires much better types systems than we have now. It is a long way to go. And, there is a thing (maybe unpleasant to some) at the end of the road, it will strip the glamour of being a "paradigm" off RM (OO as well).

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