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From: Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>
Subject: Re: Ensuring postconditions in the face of exceptions
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:00:56 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2010-03-16T12:00:56-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <341a6a47-cb89-4ec3-a030-8f580bcb4a55@q21g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wcciq8wxpkv.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com

On Mar 16, 8:18 am, Robert A Duff <bobd...@shell01.TheWorld.com>
wrote:

> > Repeat after me: "limited" is a property of a view! It's not constant for a
> > particular type! That's a common mistake that even those of us on the ARG
> > make from time-to-time.
>
> I don't understand why the definition of "by reference" is subtly
> different from the definition of "immutably limited".

Well, for one thing, the language defines what types are "immutably
limited", but it doesn't completely define which types are "by
reference"---the implementation decides that in some cases (6.2(11)).

                          -- Adam




  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-16 19:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-12  9:13 Ensuring postconditions in the face of exceptions Ludovic Brenta
2010-03-12  9:24 ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-03-12  9:29 ` Niklas Holsti
2010-03-12 11:08   ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-03-12 14:00     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2010-03-13  3:15       ` Randy Brukardt
2010-03-13 15:14         ` Robert A Duff
2010-03-16  3:13           ` Randy Brukardt
2010-03-16 15:18             ` Robert A Duff
2010-03-16 19:00               ` Adam Beneschan [this message]
2010-03-16 20:04                 ` Robert A Duff
2010-03-16 23:23               ` Randy Brukardt
2010-03-13 17:34         ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2010-03-13  7:54 ` Stephen Leake
     [not found] ` <ruqub2y84rqj.179q01lxzgatj$.dlg@40tude.net>
2010-03-13 19:33   ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-03-14 14:05 ` Alex Mentis
2010-03-14 14:21   ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-03-14 15:12     ` Alex Mentis
2010-03-15  9:14       ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-03-15 11:05         ` cjpsimon
2010-03-15 13:04           ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-03-15 14:16             ` J-P. Rosen
2010-03-15 19:14         ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2010-03-16 19:25           ` Robert Matthews
2010-03-14 15:38     ` Robert A Duff
2010-03-15  8:54       ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-03-15 16:44         ` Robert A Duff
2010-03-15 17:33           ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-03-15 18:36             ` Robert A Duff
2010-03-14 18:57     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2010-03-15  8:56       ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-03-15 11:04 ` AdaMagica
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