From: Robb.Nebbe@di.epfl.ch (Robb Nebbe)
Subject: Re: SOLVED! Decoupled Mutual Recursion Challenger
Date: 20 Oct 1994 11:25:42 GMT
Date: 1994-10-20T11:25:42+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1994Oct20.121408@di.epfl.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 38289r$79m@oahu.cs.ucla.edu
In article <38289r$79m@oahu.cs.ucla.edu>, jmartin@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Jay Martin) writes:
|> With all these ugly workarounds it looks like we must have a
|> language extension to Ada to handle mutual dependencies.
|> Otherwise Ada9x is a "joke". Of course if there is no way that Ada
|> will be extended quickly, it will be a "joke" anyway. Hopefully C++
|> has taught language designers/standardizers something.
|>
As an analogy consider a wall as representing a programming problem
and a language as providing a way to get to the other side. What you
have seen is a lot of "ugly workarounds" to go through the wall.
I saw at least one suggestion to go over the wall and another to
go around the wall but both were refused. Why? because the goal
had ceased being "getting to the other side" but instead had become
"going through the wall".
- Robb Nebbe
P.S. the fact that some langauges provide a tool that will cut a
hole in the wall and install a door to the otherside may lead
some to believe that it is a good idea to go through the wall.
They must first answer the question "Why was the wall there in
the first place?"
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Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1994-10-12 22:49 SOLVED! Decoupled Mutual Recursion Challenger John Volan
1994-10-17 15:48 ` John Volan
1994-10-17 17:55 ` Bob Duff
1994-10-17 20:52 ` John Volan
1994-10-17 22:10 ` Bob Duff
1994-10-18 22:17 ` John Volan
1994-10-19 1:01 ` Bob Duff
1994-10-19 4:45 ` Jay Martin
1994-10-19 14:38 ` Mark A Biggar
[not found] ` <38fi4r$l81@oahu.cs.ucla.edu>
1994-10-24 11:49 ` Mutual Recursion Challenge Robert I. Eachus
1994-10-24 20:32 ` John Volan
1994-10-26 11:42 ` Generic association example (was Re: Mutual Recursion Challenge) Robert I. Eachus
1994-10-26 23:21 ` John Volan
1994-10-27 10:53 ` Robert I. Eachus
1994-10-31 17:34 ` John Volan
1994-10-27 14:37 ` Mark A Biggar
1994-10-24 17:42 ` SOLVED! Decoupled Mutual Recursion Challenger John Volan
1994-10-24 22:37 ` Jay Martin
1994-10-25 5:47 ` Matt Kennel
1994-10-25 10:04 ` David Emery
1994-10-25 16:43 ` John Volan
1994-10-27 4:25 ` Rob Heyes
1994-10-28 9:03 ` Mutual Recursion (was Re: SOLVED! Decoupled Mutual Recursion Challenger) Robert I. Eachus
1994-10-28 15:04 ` SOLVED! Decoupled Mutual Recursion Challenger Robb Nebbe
1994-10-25 15:54 ` John Volan
1994-10-26 1:24 ` Bob Duff
1994-10-28 4:28 ` Jay Martin
1994-10-28 10:52 ` Robert I. Eachus
1994-10-28 18:46 ` Jay Martin
1994-11-02 14:56 ` Robert I. Eachus
1994-10-29 0:38 ` Bob Duff
1994-10-29 7:26 ` Jay Martin
1994-10-29 11:59 ` Richard Kenner
1994-10-31 13:17 ` Robert Dewar
1994-10-31 14:13 ` gcc distribution (was: SOLVED! Decoupled Mutual Recursion Challenger) Norman H. Cohen
1994-11-02 14:14 ` Richard Kenner
1994-11-04 23:56 ` Michael Feldman
1994-10-31 18:44 ` SOLVED! Decoupled Mutual Recursion Challenger John Volan
1994-10-20 11:25 ` Robb Nebbe [this message]
1994-10-20 19:19 ` John Volan
1994-10-26 0:07 ` Mark S. Hathaway
1994-10-26 18:48 ` gamache
1994-10-27 2:15 ` John Volan
[not found] ` <CxwGJF.FwB@ois.com>
1994-10-19 16:35 ` John Volan
1994-10-17 22:54 ` Cyrille Comar
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