Brad, On Tue, 19 Jun 2018, Brad Chamberlain wrote:
It's been proposed that we deprecate our current concept of "extern classes" in the next release. This is a quick poll to see whether anyone has crucial code that makes use of them today. If you do, please let me know.
If you mean being able to refer to an external C variable which is a struct then yes.
I am sure there has to be a way around this and I always guilty that I need it. But to date, I have not yet figured it out, or come up with a simple low level idea for Chapel so I can avoid it.
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