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by seanmcdirmid 3123 days ago
That’s why I said units, as in program units (Flatt, Findler, etc...). I added a module system to java that did the same thing using light bytecode rewriting in the linking step (kotlin seems to do structural matching, but doesn’t have a reconfigurable linker I guess); https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=504311.504298.