Andy Matuschak on Twitter: "@zanneth @cbarrett It would require the client of the library to also be using C++, which may not be practicable." / Twitter

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

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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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True, but I would say it's even more unreasonable to ask the client to use a language feature that doesn't exist.

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