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Re:Google broke a conditional statement that verifies passwo... by Akronymus on Friday July 23, 2021 @02:51AM (#27927928)
For those languages, I don't really see a need to paremtrize types on values. Because of the AMAZING generics support.

But that may just be the blub paradox [1] in action

[1] https://wiki.c2.com/?BlubParadox

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Re:Google broke a conditional statement that verifies passwo... by qalmakka on Friday July 23, 2021 @03:39AM (#27928207)
Well the fact you couldn't reasonably use arrays without Generic Const hit stable in Rust 1.51 says otherwise.

Defining templates on values is very useful, especially in C++ where you can provide template specializations. You can do a whole lot of metaprogramming and compile-time stuff that way.

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