* Re: better incremental compilation
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@ 1998-01-23 0:00 ` Thomas G. McWilliams
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From: Thomas G. McWilliams @ 1998-01-23 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
On the topic of Sather generics compared with C++ templates:
Boris Weissman <borisv@icsi.berkeley.edu> wrote:
: How exactly does C++ handle it? From what I heard from people working
: on commercial C++ compilers, they are having exactly the kinds of
: problems with separate compilation of generics as we are. Worse,
: in C++ the problem is inherent since the language standard does not
: place any bounds on possible template instantiations. In Sather,
: separate compilation is possible, but the current compiler does not
: do it.
Why look to C++ for a solution? I would suggest looking at GNAT Ada
which handles this nicely. (Actually, any valid implementation of Ada
should handle this but the GNAT source code is available under GNU GPL
for inspection). C++ templates are a horror compared to Ada generics.
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