On Sun, 24 Jun 2018, Michael Ferguson wrote:
If you mean being able to refer to an external
C variable which is a struct then yes.
To be clear, the usual way to allow a C struct to work in Chapel code
is `extern record`, which we are not talking about deprecating:
Lost in translation when the email crossed the Pacific Ocean.
https://chapel-lang.org/docs/technotes/extern.html#declaring-external-c-structs
The feature that Brad is talking about deprecating is `extern class` which
is arguably better represented as a `c_ptr(someExternRecord)`
(i.e. explicitly as a pointer to a struct):
In that case, ignore my email. Iit does not affect me. Go for it.
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