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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] more extensions 
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From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 14:47:27 -0400
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> | Including tuples (perhaps as an instance of nameless structs) would
> | simplify many interfaces, right? that's one thing I learned using
> | Limbo.
> 
> Yeah, but limbo has bounds checked arrays, which are even more useful.

Has anyone ever wondered, ``why not just port limbo?''  Surely the
runtime environment provided by Dis can be emulated using a library.

Not in response to Scott's comment, but in general, I'm not a big fan
of changing C; C is what C is.  If you want something else, use
something else, but don't try to morph C into another language.

	- Dan C.