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Subject: Re: What if?
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On Llu, 2004-12-13 at 21:08, J.A. Magallon wrote:
> > Type-safe linkage, mainly.  That actually would be a nice thing.
> > 
> 
> And let the compiler do all what now is done by hand wrt driver methods,
> inheritance, specialized methods and so on, with a 1000% increase in security
> because compiler does not forget to do thinks, like we do ;)

This is not a C++ thing per se however. A future gcc could do type safe
linkage of C programs instead of C++.