Andy Matuschak on Twitter: "♲ Overloadable functions across link unit boundaries in C: http://t.co/3KiFhi4Imb Library authors: overload away with this one weird trick" / Twitter

♲ Overloadable functions across link unit boundaries in C: garbagecollective.quora.com/Overloadable-f Library authors: overload away with this one weird trick

4:50 PM · Nov 27, 2013Tweetbot for Mac

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Very cool! I came across this a while ago and have been meaning to play with it. thanks for the reminder :)

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I just stubmled upon this: github.com/davedelong/CHC I was wondering if you knew of a more updated version or library I need this:)

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Would be amazing if you could do something like this: gist.github.com/irace/5035442

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I miss armcc.

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Nice but Clang only. That leaves out so many use cases

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I've been using this with a custom IsEmpty function so I can check diff things for diff classes. Very useful!

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Cool, but why wouldn't a library author just use C++ instead?

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It would require the client of the library to also be using C++, which may not be practicable.

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