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Mmmm.. you mean typedef can't be generics, didn't you?
ha well... true that...
On a side note, one that is only vaguely relevant. When generics got out I went all out on generics... and my code became an increasingly complicated and unusable bag of noodles...
Then I realised generics are better when used in moderation! 
Works for me, at least! 
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Unfortunately, when doing functional style programming heavy use of generics is pretty much unavoidable.
C++ does so much better at this kind of thing. I wish C# would add "template" to the language and allow you to do source style templates like C++ as well as generics (which are binary)
Source level templates are simply far more flexible. You can do things like that typedef, you can do things like get the compiler to make complicated calculations like generating parse tables at compile time (see the Spirit C++ parser framework for an example), and you can do partial template specializations and just all kinds of things you'll never be able to do at the binary level.
It's unfortunate. I love C++ for this stuff. I wish other languages had it.
Ironically, Java/J2EE comes close with their templates, since they are source level but they are so poorly architected that they're a bad joke.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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You can use an interface for TAccept to represent a wide variety of types, am I right? Albeit it is more restrictive that a completely wild symbolic type ...
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No, because the whole point of TAccept is it can be a value type like int, or a reference type like string.
It has to be a basic type so it can be serialized to code via System.CodeDom.CodePrimitiveExpression or via an InstanceDescriptor in the worst case. I don't want to have to force the user to declare a type for TAccept. It should be able to accept intrinsic types at face value.
Worse, one of the main points of generics is accessing value types without boxing/unboxing. If I access a value type by interface, I take the boxing hit anyway, and there's almost no reason to use a generic at all versus using System.Object at that point. Boxing in a lexing routine needs to be avoided because it's a tight, performance critical operation. It's one of the few areas where bit twiddling to get some extra speed is worth it.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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OK, I see what you mean. The C++ generic codes are sources for the C++ template concrete code generator whilc C# generic codes are concrete ones in themselves, therefore it could be harder to achieve what you are looking for ...
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That's precisely it. 
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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public class MyKvp<TAccept> : KeyValuePair<CharFA<TAccept>, CharFA<TAccept>
{
public MyKvp(TAccept key, TAccept value) : base(key, value)
{ }
}
public class WhateverTheHellThisIs<TAccept> : KeyValuePair<MyKvp<TAccept>>, RegexExpression>
{
public WhateverTheHellThisIs(MyKvp<TAccept> kvp) : base(kvp)
{ }
}
var thing = new WhateverTheHellThisIs<TAccept>(new MyKvp<TAccept>(dt.Key.Key, dt.Key.Value));That should solve of the verboseness and greatly improve readability.
Although I think I did that slightly wrong, but you get the idea 
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Yeah, that's not practical. I use too many different combos of generics. I'd have zillions of one off types, and that actually makes things less maintainable and less intelligible. At least with the templates they are using well known types, and a limited number of them.
welcome to functional programming w/ generics - something C# is *almost* good at.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Gah!
And an IDictionary<TKey, TValue> is just an IEnumerable<KeyValuePair<TKey, TValue>>
In that case, writing your own 3rd gen general purpose language and making it one of the most popular languages that works on all machines is the only clean solution that I can think of 
I guess we now know what @code-witch next article is going to be about
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Now you're just baiting me. But right now, I'm working on Rolex, the gold-plated lexer
Imma teach y'all how to build it.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I was just thinking of using an extension method. I autocorrected the source code in my head.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I miss C++ typedef, and macros - they were pretty hamn dandy... Does anyone know if they're available in c++.net?
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I feel kinda naked without them to be honest.
It's deeply uncomfortable working outside C++. I always find myself wishing for some feature or another I don't have.
Once you know how to use it C++ is pretty much a Domain Specific Language - you can even utterly alter it to your problem domain and create a whole different language out of it practically (once again, the Spirit Parser framework in C++ is an excellent application of this) - i *love* that even if i rarely use it.
It can do just about anything except protect you from yourself. 
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Un-managed C/C++ is not for wussies. I did C/C++ from 1990 to 2007. Moving to .net was a bit jarring.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I did a lot of backend C++ development, including ISAPI stuff in the early aughts.
Switching to .NET was iffy for me too, but I had been forced to know VB6 so C#'s sugary syntax didn't entirely blindside me. And I was already using a garbage collected string table in most of my C++ server apps, so the GC end of it rather appealed to me. Used correctly garbage collection is kickass on servers due to limited heap fragmentation. Your apps performance doesn't degrade over time. This is especially critical of strings, which tend to be thrown around a lot in HTTP apps =)
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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honey the codewitch wrote: no typedef!
Yup. And that's where F# really shines, because C#'s using doesn't let you built up the structure from smaller usings, as you've pointed out in other responses.
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If you're using .NET Core:
dt = KeyValuePair.Create(KeyValuePair.Create(dt.Key.Key, dt.Key.Value), tt[dt.Key]); KeyValuePair.Create<TKey,TValue>(TKey, TValue) Method (System.Collections.Generic) | Microsoft Docs[^]
If you're using .NET Framework, it's simple enough to provide your own version of this method:
#if NETFRAMEWORK
using System;
namespace System.Collections.Generic;
{
public static class KeyValuePair
{
public static KeyValuePair<TKey, TValue> Create<TKey, TValue>(TKey key, TValue value)
=> new KeyValuePair<TKey, TValue>(key, value);
}
}
#endif
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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That's one of those things that makes me feel dumb for not thinking about it first. I use template functions for things similar to this all the time. duh.
And thanks! *facepalm*
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I needed something like that some time ago. I found this RANDOM.ORG - HTTP Interface Description[^]
It's pretty great.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Yes, but with a quota of 200000 bits per day, it will take a while to do the tests.
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i was thinking you could download it in batches. They have a bulk generator.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Yes, but with a quota, if you want more you have to pay.
And it costs a bit more than I want to pay just to test an idea I have.
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Great comments !
I needed a bunch of random numbers once and I grabbed a WinAES wrapper class from here and used it. It worked out pretty well.
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