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Re: generalized lvalues -- patch outline

Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net> writes:

> kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) writes:
>
> | gdr@integrable-solutions.net (Gabriel Dos Reis)  wrote on 23.11.04 in <m3wtwdmnwi.fsf@uniton.integrable-solutions.net>:
> | 
> | > We do not need that abomination.
> | 
> | (repeated ad nauseam)
> | 
> | What we really need is to stop resorting to purely emotional arguments.
>
> I meant abomination.  It is not emotional.
> Maybe you really need to change your emotionalmeter.

Maybe we should avoid describing compiler (mis)features in the same
terms that God Almighty uses to express His opinion of sacrificing
infants to Moloch.  Whether or not we are making emotional judgements.

Also, as a general principle it is only necessary to say something
once.

zw
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