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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Ada202X: Easy to use "UML private"-like components
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 20:52:45 +0200
Date: 2013-06-23T20:52:45+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <206y6i0kct3w$.mhlovb1s5pey.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wcctxko270c.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com

On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 11:15:15 -0400, Robert A Duff wrote:

> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
> 
>> ... or there should be no generics.
>>
>> The kludge here rather is generics and inlining, both basically are macro
>> expansions.
> 
> Semantics defined by macro-expansion is confusing, and should be
> avoided.  I'd prefer to have generic types rather than generic
> packages, and don't use macro-expansion semantics.

Still macro expansion it is (if meant as textual substitution).

It is no matter how you reinterpret the expanded text: as a package, as a
type, as a statement, identifier, declaration etc. Generic types would be
no better than generic packages.

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

  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-23 18:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-21  8:43 Ada202X: Easy to use "UML private"-like components Martin
2013-06-21  9:23 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-06-21  9:33   ` Martin
2013-06-21 10:14     ` G.B.
2013-06-21 11:19       ` Martin
2013-06-21 14:51     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-06-22 11:16       ` Martin
2013-06-22 12:10         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-06-21 18:36 ` Robert A Duff
2013-06-22 16:41   ` Niklas Holsti
2013-06-22 19:05     ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2013-06-22 22:57       ` Niklas Holsti
2013-06-23  3:26         ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2013-06-23  7:32           ` Niklas Holsti
2013-06-23 13:12             ` Robert A Duff
2013-06-23 14:06               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-06-23 15:15                 ` Robert A Duff
2013-06-23 18:52                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2013-06-23 23:38                     ` Robert A Duff
2013-06-24  7:16                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-06-24 20:11                         ` Randy Brukardt
2013-06-25  7:21                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-06-25 19:06                             ` Randy Brukardt
2013-06-24 20:07                 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-06-23 14:40               ` Shark8
2013-06-23 15:28                 ` Robert A Duff
2013-06-23 18:14                   ` Bill Findlay
2013-06-23 23:43                     ` Robert A Duff
2013-06-23 23:48                       ` Bill Findlay
2013-06-24 20:16                   ` Randy Brukardt
2013-06-24 20:05               ` Randy Brukardt
2013-06-25  1:09                 ` Robert A Duff
2013-06-25 19:37                   ` Randy Brukardt
2013-06-23 12:28         ` Robert A Duff
2013-06-24 20:20           ` Randy Brukardt
2013-06-24 21:40             ` Niklas Holsti
2013-06-25  0:43               ` Robert A Duff
2013-06-25 19:23                 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-06-25 19:19               ` Randy Brukardt
2013-07-09 11:24   ` Martin
2013-07-09 14:39     ` Simon Wright
2013-07-10  7:03       ` Martin
2013-07-09 21:43     ` Robert A Duff
2013-07-10  6:34       ` Martin
2013-07-10  8:24         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-10 13:06           ` Martin
2013-07-10 16:12     ` Simon Wright
2013-07-10 18:22       ` Martin
2013-07-10 19:41         ` Simon Wright
2013-07-11 18:28           ` Martin
2013-07-11 19:37             ` Simon Wright
2013-07-11 20:43               ` Martin
2013-07-12  6:57                 ` Simon Wright
2013-07-12  8:05                   ` Martin
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