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C++ templates are a very idiosyncratic way of doing parametric polymorphism, and the C/C++ compilation model is even more idiosyncratic. You cannot make general statements about parametric polymorphism based on that.

Arzh on July 9, 2017 [–]

Everything I said was based on my experience with C++, I was making pointed statements not general ones.

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