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From: Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz@iks-jena.de>
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Subject: Re: generic question
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* Pascal Obry wrote:
> I find anonymous access type less useful this way... Why even bother
> with them then ?

Because you can derive pointers without allocation.
E.g. self references of limited types.