[bitc-dev] A curious question

[Sam Mason]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:24:00AM -0500, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 16:46 +0000, Sam Mason wrote:
> > I'm sure you've thought of this translation as well, but I'm interested
> > in knowing why you consider the C-style init sequence to be fundamental.
> 
> Because that is the style that C programmers know how to write.

Yes, on a syntactic level C style initialisers are a good thing.  I was
really meaning from a type level point of view.  Could it be easier
to work in a more functional way with objects being only completely
initialised.


  Sam