CV qualifier and substitutions
Martin von Loewis
loewis at informatik.hu-berlin.de
Thu Apr 13 18:13:26 UTC 2000
> So, to restate Alain's note, the issue is this:
>
> - The current definition treats the intermediately-qualified types to
> be substituted, maximizing substitutability in some sense.
>
> - But some implementations don't maintain internal symbol table entries
> for the intermediate types. So this probably violates our principle
> of only mangling things with a convenient symbol table handle, for
> those implementations at least.
>
> Should we eliminate substitution for the intermediates, losing some
> opportunities but maybe easing some implementations?
>
> Can we get people's reactions to this issue?
The savings of recycling a partially-qualified type are minimal, so
I agree this is a good idea.
Regards,
Martin
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