On 1/23/14 9:20 PM, Philip Sturgeon wrote:
Can you lot vote A, B, C or D to show your interest?
A) I want Array Of, but not Generics
B) I want Generics, but not Array Of
C) I want both
D) I want neither
Nothing really binding here, its more of a survey than a vote, but it
should help with the next steps.
Long-term, I think we do need some form of "abstracted collection" that's more capable than arrays, so I will say C. Whether that's generics as we've been discussing them or not I'm not sure yet.
To reiterate for everyone else: This is not an RFC vote! It's a survey. We've done a number of these "pre-vote informal survey" posts in the Framework Interoperability Group, and they've proven extremely valuable for determining if we have "rough consensus and working code" on a given topic.
It's very very easy for one or two people to make it look like there's no agreement whatsoever on a discussion thread, but when you reduce it to "soft preferences" and get a poll with a broader cross-section of people a very clear close-consensus often comes out of it. That can help move the discussion forward with less debate and more hard data, which is a good thing.
--Larry Garfield