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On 06/07/2024 05:30, BGB wrote:
> 
> Ironically, I probably should have leaned harder into the "daisy chained 
> types" interpretation, rather than treating it as an undesirable 
> implementation tradeoff.
> 

I once had to use a very limited C compiler that supported arrays, and 
structs, but not arrays of structs or structs containing arrays.  It was 
truly a PITA.  A language that has such inconvenient limitations would 
be unusable for me - I'd rather go back to using BASIC on a ZX Spectrum.