Type Inference and Ints

I did a presentation today at an ex employer of mine. It was a forerunner to my upcoming user group presentation on LINQ and when I introduced type inference I got thrown an interesting question that I couldn’t answer for sure. As a bit of background…

When are there just too many generics?

Generics are a pretty cool language feature. They provide type safety and felxible reuse at the same time, and I reckon that’s pretty cool. However as with all the other cool language features – like implicit typing, you need to be responsible with them. The question is though, when do you have too many generics?