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From: Sam <sah@softcardsystems.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] useful language extension, or no?
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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 12:20:34 -0400
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> OK, you asked for it.

In fact, I decidedly did.

>
> 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).
>

Which I agree with.  I was looking for an answer, much like the
offspring who gets frustrated with the parent's "because I said so."

Thanks for the "input" vs. the "offput."

Sam