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From: Paul Lalonde <plalonde@telus.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:51:41 -0700
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Subject: Re: [9fans] request for more GSoC project suggestions
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A cfront-ish approach to templates leads to hellish duplication of
template-generated code in each module, and thence to even worse code
bloat.  Of course, my understanding of what's possible in a cfront
translation is perhaps (probably) naive.

Paul

On 25-Mar-09, at 2:12 PM, Charles Forsyth wrote:

>> A modern cfront is nearly impossible.  Templates make it hella-hard.
>
> really? how is that?
>