Talk:Generic swap

This task description seems to me a little too language-specific in its concepts.

The statement that "The generic routine is created with one or more generic formal parameters" could be read to exclude a Haskell function with an inferred, rather than explicit, type signature, or any language with an implicit universal type ("dynamically typed").

Broadly, the task description seems to me to overspecify a particular means of operation, rather than only "do this sort of thing in a way appropriate to the language".

To demonstrate the problem, I've written Haskell, E, and Perl examples. I'd like to see the intent of the task better described so that these examples are clearly correct or incorrect.

--Kevin Reid 18:13, 7 September 2007 (EDT)