yourpalal/haiku — comment on commit 121a15ea8fa29e5d395e91eca77b0cdad7c13e0b
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By axeld:

I prefer to have it there, at least, but it I didn't understand its need for a long time to build up this preference ;-)
But you're right, this eliminates the compiler mangling issue, too. The only drawback is that you need to keep those names around in your class headers, but I think that's not really a problem as you have to live with those with FBC protection, anyway.