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From: kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner)
Subject: Re: Delphi & Ada; Ada to C++
Date: 1998/02/21
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In article <x7v1zwxtkvz.fsf@pogner.demon.co.uk> Simon Wright <simon@pogner.demon.co.uk> writes:
>And even if it did, it's unlikely that you would be able to make a lot
>of sense of it. Names would be mangled, strange and wonderful
>constructs would appear, ... (just think about exceptions, generics,
>...) you would not want to maintain the result!

Actually, generics can be translated in a relatively straightforward
manner since it's just macro substitution.  Exceptions are trickier,
but still can be done reasonable well.  The real hard cases are
variant records and unconstrained arrays.