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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: limited types (Was: Records that could be arrays)
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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:05:47 +0100
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On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:34:58 +0100, Georg Bauhaus wrote:

> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 22:07:00 GMT, Matthew Heaney wrote:
> 
>>> Write your algorithms in terms of sequences of elements instead of containers,
>>> and you can forget about containers.
>> 
>> No, thanks. If I wished that sort of untyped design, there would be C++ and
>> dynamically typed languages at my disposal. I don't want untyped
>> containers. I would keep boxes for apples and barrels for herrings in
>> separate rooms.
> 
> What kind of operations on containers do you have in mind,
> as opposed to operations focussing on their elements?

1. Passing as a parameter
2. Copying
3. Merging
4. Slicing
5. Closures and simultaneous traversal of two or more containers
6. Relational operations on sets of containers
...

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de