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Re: Putting C++ code into gcc front end
Neil Booth wrote:
Really, why does everything have to be shoehorned into being a tree?
Decls, expressions, scopes / symbol tables, statements etc should
all be their own data type. We can get perfectly good type checking
in C if we don't insist the universe is made up of trees.
I agree. However, inheritance is still useful. For example
one might have different classes for different kinds of
declarations, different kinds of expressions, etc. Perhaps
not that big a benefit.
Even more valuable: C++ constructors, destructors, and assignment
operators might have reduced the need for garbage collection.
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