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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Return by reference
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 09:18:12 +0100
Date: 2017-12-18T09:18:12+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p17tk4$ans$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4d13b387-b813-449f-93b1-850822560578@googlegroups.com

On 18/12/2017 01:51, Mehdi Saada wrote:
> Not like they were omnicient, but people in ARG certainly had at
> least  some reasons to provide a "clunky" mechanism ?

Sure. Typical arguments are:

1. It is too complicated

2. It could be incompatible with a feature nobody ever used and nobody 
certain is there

3. "Aber, meine Herren, das ist keine Physik".

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de


  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-18  8:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-17 14:38 Return by reference Jere
2017-12-17 14:57 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-12-18  0:51   ` Mehdi Saada
2017-12-18  8:18     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2017-12-18 10:47       ` Mehdi Saada
2017-12-18 12:16         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-12-18 22:41     ` Randy Brukardt
2017-12-18 22:33 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-12-19  1:29   ` Jere
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-11-01  0:00 Brian Rogoff
1999-11-02  0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-11-02  0:00   ` Brian Rogoff
1999-11-03  0:00     ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-11-03  0:00       ` Brian Rogoff
1999-11-04  0:00         ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-11-06  0:00           ` Brian Rogoff
1999-11-07  0:00             ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-11-04  0:00       ` Robert A Duff
1999-11-03  0:00     ` Matthew Heaney
1999-11-03  0:00       ` Matthew Heaney
1999-11-03  0:00       ` Brian Rogoff
1999-11-02  0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
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