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From: "Matthew Heaney" <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Function Calls by Address
Date: 1999/09/05
Date: 1999-09-05T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <37d24bc3@news1.prserv.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7qt4dv$fp7$1@wanadoo.fr

In article <7qt4dv$fp7$1@wanadoo.fr> , "Jean-Pierre Rosen" 
<rosen.adalog@wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> If you use a child package, then the "data visible" must be put in the
> private part of the parent, which may have other drawbacks.

I doesn't have to go in the private part of the parent's spec.  It could
almost as easily go in an public part of a private child.  The private child
could be with'd by whichever module needs access to the data.

> In short: there is certainly no definitive "best solution". The best
> recommendation is: "know the tools that are available, know their drawbacks
> and benefits, and choose the most appropriate for the task at hand on a case
> by case basis".

Well said.  I lot of guys give themselves rules about features not to use,
but they are unwittingly reducing the size of the solution space.

--
Matt

It is impossible to feel great confidence in a negative theory which has
always rested its main support on the weak points of its opponent.

Joseph Needham, "A Mechanistic Criticism of Vitalism"




  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-09-05  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-08-30  0:00 Function Calls by Address Craig Jameson
1999-08-30  0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-08-30  0:00   ` Marin David Condic
1999-08-30  0:00     ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-08-30  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-30  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-30  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-31  0:00   ` Martin Gangkofer
1999-08-31  0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-08-31  0:00 ` David Kristola
1999-09-01  0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-09-02  0:00 ` Francois Godme
1999-09-03  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-03  0:00     ` Francois Godme
1999-09-03  0:00       ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-09-04  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-05  0:00           ` Francois Godme
1999-09-06  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-06  0:00               ` Francois Godme
1999-09-06  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-06  0:00                   ` Bob Collins
1999-09-07  0:00                     ` Pascal Obry
1999-09-06  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-07  0:00                 ` Pascal Obry
1999-09-07  0:00                   ` Francois Godme
1999-09-08  0:00                   ` Francois Godme
1999-09-03  0:00       ` Marin David Condic
1999-09-14  0:00         ` Robert I. Eachus
     [not found]           ` <wcc3dwgb7ii.fsf@world.std.com>
     [not found]             ` <37E81079.CC2566D9@mitre.org>
1999-09-22  0:00               ` Robert A Duff
1999-09-22  0:00                 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-09-23  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-23  0:00                   ` Robert A Duff
1999-09-03  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-03  0:00         ` Ted Dennison
1999-09-04  0:00           ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-09-05  0:00             ` Ehud Lamm
1999-09-05  0:00             ` Matthew Heaney [this message]
1999-09-04  0:00         ` Brian Rogoff
1999-09-05  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-05  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-05  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-03  0:00       ` Simon Wright
1999-09-04  0:00       ` Mario Klebsch
1999-09-05  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-06  0:00           ` Francois Godme
1999-09-05  0:00             ` Brian Rogoff
1999-09-06  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-08  0:00               ` Georg Bauhaus
1999-09-05  0:00       ` Geoff Bull
1999-09-07  0:00       ` Michael F. Yoder
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