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From: "Howard Trickey" <howard@research.bell-labs.com>
To: "Sam" <sah@softcardsystems.com>, <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] useful language extension, or no?
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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 13:04:10 -0400
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> Anyone else have an opinion on this ... specifically the guys/gals
> at the labs, since without their consent tool changes doubtfully
> become realised?

OK, you asked for it.

I'm completely in agreement with Rob.
There should be a high bar for adding language extensions
(each one makes it harder to port code that uses them).
The "atend" thing is very far below the bar.
It is arguable whether the anonymous type thing was above
the bar, but it was certainly a lot higher.  The latter
lets the compiler do type checking for you in a common
situation (one where you might be using inheritance in
another language, as Rob pointed out).

- Howard Trickey