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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Pass by reference
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> Because that could be a handle requiring Initialize/Adjust/Finalize. To be
> honest, forcing tagged types to be by-reference was probably a mistake.

It's hard to envision another efficient way of implementing
dispatching calls.

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