Export ?

[Kapps]

On Tuesday, 10 April 2012 at 17:44:54 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>
> As I said in the other thread, I _hate_ export. It's one of 
> Windows largest
> misfeatures IMHO. It drives me nuts when I have to deal with it 
> in C++. The
> fact that Linux exports everything is _fantastic_. It's so much 
> easier to deal
> with. I'd _hate_ to see Linux or anything we do move in the 
> direction of what
> Windows has done.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Agreed. Ideally, there would be a compiler flag to export all 
public symbols by default. Public is there for a reason, public 
is default for a reason. Now forcing a bunch of clutter just to 
add expor to everything, would defeat the purpose and is the 
single largest reason I don't use DLLs.