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From: "Howard Trickey" <howard@research.bell-labs.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: [9fans] more extensions
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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 13:28:07 -0400
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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.