Chapter 10. Duck and Goose, or the Whimsical Bases of Partial Structural Conformance
Sometimes it kind of bothers me that our brains are so good at optimizing themselves for the task at hand. They get really good at discarding knowledge that is no longer necessary. | ||
| --Sean Kelly | ||
It’s harder to read code than to write it. | ||
| --Joel Spolsky | ||
Conformance
Named Conformance
Classically (by which I mean before template generics), types were verified to have the appropriate requirements for an operation by having the same name as the types that the operation requires. This is known as Named Conformance. Although it seems blatantly obvious, the insight comes when we consider the effect of inheritance. As we all know from those $2,000-a-day courses on object ...
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