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Re: containers tentative design summary

On Sun, 15 Nov 2009, Jonathan Underwood wrote:

I think it would be better if GSL, being written in C,  were to
present the most functional interface at the expense of sacrificing
type safety, and higher level language bindings could then wrap that
API and do type checking as needed. As gerard says, C isn't about type
safety.


I agree.  A good C programmer is comfortable with casts and knows
perfectly well that it is up to them to track them.  And the compiler
(give a chance) will usually at least warn you about apparent
inconsistency.

rgb


Jonathan


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