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[Walter Bright]

On 12/7/2017 11:41 AM, Manu wrote:
> Misuse of the API; ie, a runtime call, will result in an unsuspecting user 
> getting a surprising link error, rather than a nice compile-time error 
> explaining what they did wrong...

I think Nicholas is talking about functions for which code cannot be generated.

In any case, in C/C++/D if you call functions in .h files (or imports) that are 
not linked in, you'll get a linker error.