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From: Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com>
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Subject: Re: why learn C?
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Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 16:05 +0000, Hyman Rosen wrote:
>> You are correct that C++ does not support this, but
>> incorrect that it is unfortunate.
> I beg to differ. When there are reasons not to support
> this kind of nesting in C++, I still see nesting of things
> including types as a feature of Ada that is valuable.

Oh, sure, it's immensely valuable. It just isn't C++. The
type system in C++ is completely static, and that deeply
affects the language, especially templates. I think that
it's essentially impossible to shoehorn a dynamic type
system into the language and still retain its qualities.