<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">a good idea on paper, a disastrous one in practice. What happens if every geometry library declares their own Point type?</div></div></blockquote>That would be ugly („disastrous“ imho is a little bit to strong — C++ had/has similar issues, and other languages as well)</div><div>But if there would be a simple Point struct in a library that is popular (could be achieved by shipping it alongside the stdlib), this problem would be solved (there has been a pitch lately, but I guess it faded away silently).</div></body></html>