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From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What's wrong with C++?
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 07:13:16 +0200
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On 11-10-05 04:13 , Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) wrote:
> Le Wed, 05 Oct 2011 03:53:28 +0200, Peter C. Chapin
> <PChapin@vtc.vsc.edu> a écrit:
>> I don't think this is a big deal. It's an interesting theoretical
>> observation with little practical significance.
> Bad theoretical background is no good (at least, it matters to me, to
> me, it is a base of trustability).

Doesn't Ada have a similar theoretical problem with the elaboration 
order? I seem to remember that finding a valid elaboration order for an 
arbitrary Ada program is rather difficult, in general, and compilers are 
allowed to give up on it.

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