[J3] Thoughts on the semantics of generics

[Van Snyder]

On Sun, 2018-08-12 at 16:25 -0600, William Clodius via J3 wrote:

concerning instantiation of generic modules....

> it encourages the instantiation of essentially the same module in
> multiple contexts resulting in code bloat and compilation cascades. 

An easy way users could avoid this is something like:

module MySpecificModule
  use GenericModule(parameter1, parameter2, ...)
end module MySpecificModule

and then use MySpecificModule where you might be tempted to instantiate
GenericModule several different times with the same parameters.

This is a bit easier than instantiating a generic module as a specific
free-standing independent module.  I suppose we could invent syntax to
do that, instead of this kludge.