On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 5:24 AM, Brendan Eich wrote:
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> I think readability can favor typedefs too, though, and tried to say that.
> Sorry for being unclear about "consumers". Readers do not benefit
> indefinitely (for every occurrence, say hundreds to thousands in a source
> file) from using exc
Jim Blandy wrote:
I'm surprised people are offering justifications based on how much work
it is to type or add typedefs or whatever.
I think readability can favor typedefs too, though, and tried to say
that. Sorry for being unclear about "consumers". Readers do not benefit
indefinitely (for e
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 11:59 PM, Jim Blandy wrote:
> 1) All the template instantiations support the same interface. When you
> see a Rooted, you know exactly what it does. Not so with typedefs.
>
That seems like something we can quite easily establish by convention.
Are you concerned about the
I'm surprised people are offering justifications based on how much work
it is to type or add typedefs or whatever. Reading is *vastly* more
common than writing; that's the case to optimize for.
I don't agree that the templates are an implementation detail:
1) All the template instantiations suppo
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