Confirming.

I'd be very interested in the being able to do the following:

// retrieving gconf value
var x_pos = settings.get<int> ("x_pos");

// some fictitious db api
var title = row.get_column<string> ("title");

// For implementing an api, i wouldn't mind something like the following.
public T get<T> (string param1) {
        var type = typeof (T);

        if (type == typeof (bool))
                return true;
        else if (type == typeof (string))
                return "value";

        return null;
}

// Perhaps that could compile to something like ..
public GValue some_type_get_as (GType type, string param1);

Rather,

public GValue some_type_get_as (SomeType self, GType type, string param1);

commit 37c82ec971b2b200f3d7ca188d1c91d0f34a3f9f
Author: Jürg Billeter <j@bitron.ch>
Date:   Tue Jun 2 17:26:29 2009 +0200

    Add initial support for generic methods
    
    Fixes bug 492483.