On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 9:05 PM Ryan Joseph <generic...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What if static array and record types were the exception? Avoiding making any exceptions in a design is typically a good thing. > Personally I’ve had to write dummy types more than once in order to get > around this design problem. If I had to guess I’d say this is just a > historical relict the didn’t stand up to the test of time. > I'm not so confident about dummy types. I typically refer to C-based API's. For example WinAPI. WinAPI is actually providing a pointer-to-type type declaration, for all of it's type. Even though they don't really have to do that, as C does allow inline reference declaration. I'm wondering what were Microsoft's reasons to introduce a lot of "historical relic" in their apis thanks, Dmitry
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