Re: Sharing generic bodies across instantiations.

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:59:03 -0700 (PDT), Maciej Sobczak wrote:

> On 28 Lip, 00:23, "Peter C. Chapin" <pcc482...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> That is, the nature of C++ essentially requires a
>> replication strategy.
> 
> Why? What part of that "nature" requires it?

Macro's nature

[...]
 
> But, for the sake of exercise, think about a C++ *interpreter*.

Interpreter is an obvious non-starter in this context. Generics are
considered compilable. Well, they are kind of compilable. Templates aren't
compilable, almost not. (There is no crisp line between compiled and
interpreted)

In other context, it could be different. E.g. both generics and templates
are in fact shared in the visual debugger. You can step into a "generic
body," even if there is no such object-code entity. That was not the OP's
question.

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