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
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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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