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        {\bf Resource Management and Tuples in \CFA}

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        by \\

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        Robert Schluntz \\

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        A thesis \\
        presented to the University of Waterloo \\
        in fulfillment of the \\
        thesis requirement for the degree of \\
        Master of Mathematics \\
        in \\
        Computer Science \\

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        Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 2017 \\

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        \copyright\ Robert Schluntz 2017 \\
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I hereby declare that I am the sole author of this thesis. This is a true copy of the thesis, including any required final revisions, as accepted by my examiners.

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I understand that my thesis may be made electronically available to the public.

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\begin{center}\textbf{Abstract}\end{center}

\CFA is a modern, non-object-oriented extension of the C programming language.
This thesis addresses several critical deficiencies of C, notably: resource management, a limited function-return mechanism, and unsafe variadic functions.
To solve these problems, two fundamental language features are introduced: tuples and constructors/destructors.
While these features exist in prior programming languages, the contribution of this work is engineering these features into a highly complex type system.
C is an established language with a dedicated user-base.
An important goal is to add new features in a way that naturally feels like C, to appeal to this core user-base, and due to huge amounts of legacy code, maintaining backwards compatibility is crucial.

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