C# frontend

[Per Bothner]

Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:

> Seriously, are the languages close enough that it would make sense to
> implement C# as a language variation in Java front-end?

Well, there are big similarities, but the many things (including syntax)
are different.  They have similar object models, but C# also has "unboxed"
objects (struct types, not just reference types), and the primitive
number types as just builtin unboxed types.  This idea (which I believe
comes from Eiffel) makes a lot of sense to me.
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