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Not everything is a nail...

Not everything is a nail...

Posted Jan 30, 2011 0:37 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Not everything is a nail... by daglwn
Parent article: Sobotka: Why GIMP is inadequate

*Closures* would help tremendously in writing code that uses callbacks. But they require quite a lot of runtime support which is not available in the kernel.

C++'s syntactic sugar is insignificant in comparison. (At least, in this area. I agree that RAII is really nice, but the kernel seems to be surviving without it.)


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