When will generics etc. be implemented

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Anyone care to comment knowledge on any forthcoming language technologies such as generics? This is something that I simply cannot live without. I'm curious if you know a better way, but currently I'm stuck using ArrayList and explicit casting, or else creating specialized classes. It's more of a hassle for enumerable custom Hashtables. I have a few of those for various types

It appears, that because generics are not yet available, that their implementation would require an architectural modification to .NET. Because, I would assume it'd be a high-priority feature if feasible to implement

What other major language features do you see forthcoming?
 
Jonathan Nix said:
Anyone care to comment knowledge on any forthcoming language
technologies such as generics? This is something that I simply cannot
live without. I'm curious if you know a better way, but currently I'm
stuck using ArrayList and explicit casting, or else creating
specialized classes. It's more of a hassle for enumerable custom
Hashtables. I have a few of those for various types.

It appears, that because generics are not yet available, that their
implementation would require an architectural modification to .NET.
Because, I would assume it'd be a high-priority feature if feasible
to implement.
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It's being implemented for Whidbey, the next version of Visual Studio
and .NET.
What other major language features do you see forthcoming?
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See http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-
us/dv_vstechart/html/vbconCProgrammingLanguageFutureFeatures.asp

aka http://tinyurl.com/848u
 
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