From: John English <je@bton.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Unconstrained type Unchecked_Deallocation
Date: 2000/03/06
Date: 2000-03-06T16:06:13+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38C3D82F.C9F81832@bton.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8a0h55$qc5$1@nnrp1.deja.com
Ted Dennison wrote:
> That ought to work just fine. However, I don't see the benifit of doing
> this over just naming the instantiation of Unchecked_Deallocation "Free"
> in the first place. They have the same parameter profile and the same
> mission.
Possibly to avoid creating a dependence between the package spec and
Unchecked_Deallocation? Might make it easier to move to a different
allocation/deallocation regime at a later date, e.g. when porting...
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-03-05 0:00 Unconstrained type Unchecked_Deallocation Andy Askey
2000-03-06 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-03-06 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-03-06 0:00 ` John English [this message]
2000-03-06 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
[not found] ` <38C566CE.6283C0AD@rational.com>
2000-03-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-08 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-04-05 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-04-06 0:00 ` P. S. Norby
2000-04-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-09 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-04-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-12 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
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