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> It's still just a platitude. Poetry is just a pointless distraction. > You can put lipstick on a pig... Was this comment the spoken word in disguise? It sounded a little poetic t…

IANAL, and I am not the one being quoted... with that said, it seems to me that you're reading way too much into that statement, and in the process, more-or-less ignoting the conte…

You can't rely on the order of imports initialization anyway. See http://golang.org/ref/spec#Program_execution .. I believe that's also the reason, you shouldn't call `flag.Parse()…

(I don't seem to be able to reply to your comment directly) danieldk 8 minutes ago | link >> As I've already said to someone else. This is about linking, not compilation. The rest …

> But that is mostly a problem because incremental compiling in C++ is difficult for well-known reasons. Incremental compiling is well-supported in many other languages (e.g. Java)…

You say that, and yet here we are commenting on a forum? written in a Arc, a language implementation that wasn't strictly required .

You could potentially also have an interface that defined methods for all the basic types `interface { AsString() (string, error), etc. }` and then each basic type implements this …

1) no comment. 2) This is about the linker , not the compiler . You should compare the compilation times with the linking times instead of making assumptions.