From: Tucker Taft <stt@averstar.com>
Subject: Re: Subverting 'Access for Sub-programs
Date: 1999/08/09
Date: 1999-08-09T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <37AEF9EC.74154432@averstar.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wccso5xnhyh.fsf@world.std.com
Robert A Duff wrote:
> ...
> Tucker and I discussed a design for allowing nested type extensions for
> *limited* types, which would have prevented the dangling pointer issues.
> I don't remember if we ever formally proposed this idea in public, or if
> we killed it ourselves before it was seen by any reviewers. I think it
> involved a lot of implementation burden, and I have vague recollections
> of worrying about the mob of generic-body-sharing compiler writers we
> would have had to flee from...
It isn't that bad. It was all described in the Language Design Note
that you posted to this News thread just a little while ago.
Any additional information needed in the way of static links,
displays, etc., gets added to the representation of the type
as part of the nested (limited) extension.
>
>
> - Bob
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-Tucker Taft stt@averstar.com http://www.averstar.com/~stt/
Technical Director, Distributed IT Solutions (www.averstar.com/tools)
AverStar (formerly Intermetrics, Inc.) Burlington, MA USA
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Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-08-03 0:00 Subverting 'Access for Sub-programs Anton Gibbs
1999-08-03 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-08-05 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-08-03 0:00 ` Michael F. Yoder
1999-08-03 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-08-03 0:00 ` Steve Doiel
1999-08-03 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-08-03 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-08-04 0:00 ` Anton Gibbs
1999-08-04 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-08-04 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-08-05 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-08-05 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-08-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-05 0:00 ` Ray Blaak
1999-08-06 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-08-06 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-08-07 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-08-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-08-08 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-08-09 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-08-10 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-08-09 0:00 ` Tucker Taft [this message]
1999-08-05 0:00 ` Anton Gibbs
1999-08-04 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-08-04 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-08-05 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-08-05 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-08-05 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-08-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-08-05 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-08-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-09 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-08-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-11 0:00 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
1999-08-11 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-08-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-12 0:00 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
1999-08-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-16 0:00 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
1999-08-11 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-08-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-13 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-08-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-11 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-08-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-05 0:00 ` adam
1999-08-05 0:00 ` adam
1999-08-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-08-06 0:00 ` adam
1999-08-09 0:00 ` Mark Biggar
1999-08-09 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-08-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-05 0:00 ` What is a Display ? (was: Subverting 'Access for Sub-programs) Larry Kilgallen
1999-08-05 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-08-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-06 0:00 ` Subverting 'Access for Sub-programs Brian Rogoff
1999-08-07 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-08-05 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-08-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-05 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-08-05 0:00 ` Steve Quinlan
1999-08-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-04 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-08-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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