[m-rev.] Re: your mail

[Tyson Dowd]

On 19-May-2002, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 18-May-2002, Peter Ross <pro at missioncriticalit.com> wrote:
> > The major user visible difference of this change is that any output
> > variables (except the return value of det functions) will require a * to
> > be placed before the variable name when refering to them in the MC++
> > foreign proc code.
> 
> Well, that seems like a drawback...

Yes, I managed to work around this in the original implementation, it
would be nice if we could still do this (and if not, at least know why).

> > Output Managed C++ code using the same mechanisms as we do for C# code,
> > rather than using pragma_c_gen to generate MC++ code.
> 
> What is the rationale for this change?

I would say maintainability, that's why I've wanted to do this change for
a while.

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