[PRL] awkward and unweildy
Johan Ovlinger
johan at ccs.neu.edu
Tue Nov 18 11:53:36 EST 2003
[sent this last night, but it never showed up, so rinse, repeat]
In semantics-seminar discussions over the years, various grousings
have been voiced about module systems becoming awkward on non-toy
problems as linking statements have failed to scale, or arcane
incantations being required in order to get the type-checker to
believe that two imported types are the same...
As a concrete example, I seem to recall Matthew Flatt claiming to have
solution for the akwardness of manually declarring all the linking
instructions in his Units-for-C work. About a year ago, I think.
But this is all very informal and handwavy. Does anyone have any
pointers to published critiques?
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