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[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>> Actually a smart linker would do that anyway. The only reason we need
>> manifest constants is because OPTLINK isn't smart enough.
>> (And DMD isn't smart enough to discard unreachable variables from the
>> symbol table).
>
> Exactly so.

So.. the solution to a toolchain problem is to add a feature into the language?

Exported templates in C++?  The 'register' keyword?  Isn't this the
kind of stuff we want to avoid?