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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 13:16:09 +0100
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On 18/12/2017 11:47, Mehdi Saada wrote:

> What ? Too complicated to provide something simplier ? Or rather to
> change to rest of the language accordingly ?

Simpler for the programmer frequently means difficult for the compiler 
designer. After all Ada is far less complicated than ANSI C, but not so 
simple to write a compiler...

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