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[he_who_journals]

To make a language better than c++ is not hard. c++ conveniently skirts most usefulness, has a lot of notational overhead, and is rather difficult to write smart compilers for. Most of the work it saves the programmer is the easy human work; the hard work, better left to a computer, it dumps on him.

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[he_who_journals]

Members always were just interfaces, even in structs in c. They have two separate tasks: tell the compiler to set memory aside, and offer an interface to the struct through the operations on that memory. unions are evidence of this; in a union, the compiler only sets the memory aside once and accepts several different interfaces on that memory. c++ takes, I think, a dishonest approach to generalizing this and misses the point of c.