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From: "Alejandro R. Mosteo" <alejandro@mosteo.com>
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On 06/03/18 14:29, Mehdi Saada wrote:
> I so understand you Alexandro !
> But I wonder why they even allowed to write these expression bodies in the specs.

 From a compiler writer POV I may understand it for the same reasons we 
have the private part in the spec. But I'm kind of wishing that they 
were forcefully confined to the private part.