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Perhaps the downvotes are because the comment is pretty empty. You could say that about effectively anything. It doesn't add to the discussion. If, for example, you have information indicating that generics are on the horizon or that Pike et al. have discussed the possibility of adding generics, that would be a lot more interesting and substantive.

I downvoted it because it added nothing to the conversation. The word "yet" by itself does not add anything meaningful, isn't funny, has no depth, does not provide any new information, is not a good conversation lead.... yeah, so that's why I downvoted it.

We should really require commenting while downvoting unreplied comments. The community has gotten lazy.