Feb. 18, 2012
11:59 p.m.
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 3:24 PM, David Cournapeau <cournape@gmail.com>wrote:
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris@gmail.com> wrote:
Well, we already have code obfuscation (DOUBLE_your_pleasure, FLOAT_your_boat), so we might as well let the compiler handle it.
Yes, those are not great, but on the other hand, it is not that a fundamental issue IMO.
"Name mangling" is what I meant. But C++ does exactly the same thing, just more systematically. It's not whether it's great, it's whether the compiler or the programmer does the boring stuff. <snip> Chuck