Rainer Deyke wrote:
>> I still find it silly that it was built that way. Seems to me you should
>> be able to forward-reference *any* symbol that has a value that can't
>> change over its lifetime. Functions, const/immutable vars, typedefs,
>> classes, etc.
>
> That can lead to subtle problems in the case of functions:
>
> int i = f();
> int f() { return i; }
You're right, I forgot about that. You can conservatively statically forbid
this. But I admit it makes the 'constant data should obviously be
forward-referenceable' thing less convincing. :-)
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Michiel Helvensteijn
