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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Return by reference
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 09:18:12 +0100
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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".

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