Two standard libraries?

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Bill Baxter a écrit :
> Robert Fraser wrote:
>> I stand corrected.
> 
> Ok people come on.  Doesn't he have something of a point?  Doesn't byte 
> compilation at least remove the names of local variables that clearly 
> are not and therefor cannot ever be referred to by name?

Well, ideally if there is a function which needs to the variable name at 
runtime, then the compiler *should* keep the name.. Otherwise, yes the 
compiler can drop the name to save memory.

Using index to refer to variable in a list strikes me as a very bad idea 
leading to a lot of potential mistake (think about the maintenance!), so 
a way to use variables name (at least for constant string at compilation 
time) should be provided.

I have made a 'format string' templated function which worked this way, 
I posted it some time ago..

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