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Re: [PATCH INSTALLED]: const typedefs part 19/N


On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Diego Novillo wrote:

> Agreed.  The kludgery we have in our internal code base is laughable.
> We are becoming cfront parsers with feet.  Moving to a subset of ISO
> C++ would help us:
>
> 1- Impose true separation between modules
> 2- Define a simple class hierarchy to describe all the ILs
> 3- Privatize data structures
> 4- Move many dynamic checks to compile-time checks

Yes, for #4 most of the "enable checking" stuff would become static type
checking in C++.


Oh, you forgot:

5- Templates and function overloading for const return-types. :-P


> Hopefully soon.

Yes.

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Kaveh R. Ghazi			ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu


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