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From: Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>
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Subject: Re: Ensuring postconditions in the face of exceptions
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On Mar 16, 8:18=A0am, Robert A Duff <bobd...@shell01.TheWorld.com>
wrote:

> > Repeat after me: "limited" is a property of a view! It's not constant f=
or a
> > particular type! That's a common mistake that even those of us on the A=
RG
> > 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