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From: "Howard Trickey" <howard@research.bell-labs.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: [9fans] more extensions
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 13:28:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000501c22cee$2608e170$bf356887@bl.belllabs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D3456EA.4B0BC1D4@gsyc.escet.urjc.es>

This is tempting.  Tuples are one of my favorite things
about Limbo.

However, I'm biased, as I was the one that pushed for tuples
in Limbo, I think.

But adding them to C's already delicate grammar might
be harder than it appears.  And  there comes a point
where an extension changes the flavor of a language
a little too much, and I think this one might be over
that line.

- Howard Trickey

> Including tuples (perhaps as an instance of nameless structs) would
> simplify many interfaces, right? that's one thing I learned using
> Limbo.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-07-16 17:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-16 16:08 [9fans] useful language extension, or no? rob pike, esq.
2002-07-16 15:31 ` Sam
2002-07-16 17:24 ` [9fans] more extensions FJ Ballesteros
2002-07-16 16:26   ` Sam
2002-07-16 17:28   ` Howard Trickey [this message]
2002-07-16 17:09     ` [9fans] New language? Sam
2002-07-17  5:45       ` GBA
2002-07-17  6:23         ` Lucio De Re
2002-07-16 18:23   ` [9fans] more extensions Scott Schwartz
2002-07-16 18:47     ` Dan Cross
2002-07-16 19:05       ` Jon Snader
2002-07-17  8:58   ` Douglas A. Gwyn
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-07-16 19:15 bwc
2002-07-16 19:46 ` Fariborz (Skip) Tavakkolian
2002-07-16 18:44 rob pike, esq.
2002-07-17  8:58 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
     [not found] <nemo@gsyc.escet.urjc.es>
2001-10-09  6:25 ` [9fans] rewriting paths [was: mv vs cp] Fco.J.Ballesteros
2001-10-09  6:41   ` George Michaelson
2001-10-10  9:05     ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-10-09 14:19   ` Richard

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