[Issue 9029] Built-in types treated specially for alias parameters

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http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=9029



--- Comment #10 from Don <clugdbug at yahoo.com.au> 2012-11-30 04:00:37 PST ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> (In reply to comment #6)
> > (In reply to comment #5)
> > > (In reply to comment #4)
> > > 
> > > > There was a proposal recently on the NG suggesting builtin types should have
> > > > entries in the symbol table. Sounded fairly reasonable.
> > > 
> > > Yeah, this is what the dragon book suggests as well.
> > 
> > Huh? There is no technical difficulty whatsoever, AFAIK it was _never_ thought
> > to be difficult to implement.
> 
> When did the difficulty come in to question? Something to do with this 'dragon
> book' that I don't understand?

The comments you guys have made indicated to me that you don't realize that the
reason this isn't part of the language is simply because Walter has seen it as
undesirable. (Not that it would make the compiler ugly or complicated or
anything like that).

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