Generic Interfaces

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Nobuyuki (Posted 2013) [#1]

So I heard somewhere that around v70, interfaces can be generic now? Is this a documented feature? Is it fully supported and reliable? I want to update one of my projects to use this, but since it's a library, I don't want to do it if it's not an officially-supported feature of the language yet. Nitty-gritty details for those of you who care: Specifically, I want to implement my version of Comparator<T> (from monkey-timsort) as an interface so that classes can specify themselves as a comparator when sent to a generic Sorter<T> (of which TimSort<T> will eventually become one of, once all of this is standardized). I still hope to standardize sorting into all of the default monkey containers in a generic way; generic interfaces could simplify the coding patterns to do this...

marksibly (Posted 2013) [#2]

It's WIP and not officially supported yet - I left it enabled by accident.

Goodlookinguy (Posted 2013) [#3]

You're not going to disable now are you? Cause I've been using it since I discovered it a couple of months ago. It's been working very smoothly.

Nobuyuki (Posted 2013) [#4]

>It's WIP and not officially supported yet - I left it enabled by accident. Thanks! I look forward to seeing what the tests bear out.

marksibly (Posted 2013) [#5]

> It's been working very smoothly. Well, that's good to know! There are a couple of 'edge' cases I know about that are yet to be handled, to do with interfaces inheriting other interfaces etc, but it should happen officially eventually.

Belimoth (Posted 2013) [#6]

Excellent!