Re: 122 (v1): types and structures

[email protected] ("David L. Nicol")
Newsgroups perl.perl6.language.data
Organization University of Missouri - Kansas City supercomputing infrastructure
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Tom Christiansen wrote:

> C type declarations are pretty universally despised.

By whom?

This is news to me.  I have always thought that the C type declaration
is a concise and platform-independent way of declaring a packed
structure, and effectively hiding implementation details (offsets into it)
from the programmer.

What is wrong with them, that makes them despicable?
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