It can apply STL-like generic programming to Swing clients, generic parameterization, some generic arithmetic on Number subclasses, but has a few function methods providing basic operations. Another ...

Bjarne Stroustrup is on a mission to simplify generic programming. In a recently published paper titled “Concepts: The Future of Generic Programming,” Stroustrup makes the case for concepts as ...

Incidentally, there is a precedent for programming in this style within the Java language. In the java.util.Calendar class, there are many properties, like year, month, day, hour, minute, second, etc.