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Re: What do we want in Carbon? (was Modern C++)

circa 11/8/03 3:26 PM, Mike Kluev <email@hidden> wrote:

>> The developer of application A calls GetNewDialog and passes the
>> resulting DialogRef to RunStandardAlert. It works due to some undocumented
>> implementation detail. ...

> That would probably not happen if RunStandardAlert, CreateStandardAlert,
> etc were prototyped to use some other type StdAlertDialogRef instead of
> DialogRef:

Well... yes. But I didn't pick the example, and in any case wishing there
had been different type choices doesn't make it so. In fact, the example can
be generalized quite broadly over the domains of language-level data type,
call time, call sequence, etc.

--

Pete Gontier
http://www.pete.gontier.org/
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