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Re: svn commit: r30773 - trunk/notes

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:35:41 +0200

Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:
> 2008-04-24 21:10:35 Karl Fogel napisał(a):
>
>> brane_at_tigris.org writes:
>>
>>> --- trunk/notes/wc-ng-design Thu Apr 24 12:04:37 2008 (r30772)
>>> +++ trunk/notes/wc-ng-design Thu Apr 24 12:07:54 2008 (r30773)
>>> @@ -267,6 +267,9 @@ One way to prevent the lengthy 'if()' bl
>>> to design a dispatch mechanism based on the path-state in WORKING/BASE and the
>>> required transformation, dispatching to (small) functions which perform
>>> solely that specific task.
>>> +#####XBC Do please note that this suggests yet another instance of
>>> + pure polymorphism coded in C. This runs contrary to the
>>> + developer sanity requirement.
>>>
>> Are we positive that wc-ng can't introduce C++?
>>
>
> For backward compatibility C++ rather cannot be introduced only in already
> existing public functions.
>

Wait, the public API is totally orthogonal to the implementation
language. Its trivial to expose a pure C API from something written in
C++ or Python or Java or you-name-it.

-- Brane

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