Invisible wrote:
> I think it could be supported efficiently; I just 
> can't think of any language which does it.

C# lets you declare arrays of objects that are inline like C++, and the 
generic "List" class will generate special versions when you instantiate it 
with a class that is pass-by-value, but the nature of the pass-by-value 
objects is that you can't inherit from them and add any fields, so the 
question doesn't come up.

>>   Perhaps not *impossible*, but as you may guess, quite hard and kludgey.
> 
> Not if it's hard-wired into the language. 

Yeah. C++ style OO is kludgey in C. That's why cfront was written. :-)

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