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Dave Abrahams
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This change creates an unpleasant amount of boilerplate where `Declaration` is declared, in exchange for being able to—very pleasantly—treat it as a simple value that composes with other values everywhere it is used. Applying this technique broadly will pay off in code comprehensibility; once it has been done for all things being new'd, pointers disappear and references are only needed as an idiomatic approximation of inout. The unpleasant code grows only when new polymorphic operations are added, and then only a bit, and is an idiom whose details can readily be ignored once in place. The pleasant code pervades the codebase. Too bad we don't have existential types in C++ ;-)