Class Browsers vs Static Types (Re: Inefficiency of __getattr__)

[Ketil Z Malde]

graham <graham73 at telocity.com> writes:

> But the latter case is not very common, since no-one writes code
> that they don't intend to run.

Actually, I am, in C++.  See e.g. the thread in comp.lang.c++,
starting with the message <KETIL-vk1bsx2ro3t.fsf at eris.bgo.nera.no>

Because of limitations in the C(and ++) type system, I am unable to
solve my problem without having functions with bodies like
{ASSERT(FALSE); return ....;} 

-kzm
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