From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,19d0849c68914783 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Thom Brooke Subject: Re: Design problem using Multiple Dispatch or Redispatch (long) Date: 2000/03/15 Message-ID: <38CEF0A4.68095CA3@yahoo.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 597614217 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <38CDAA56.36B9E1C1@yahoo.com> <01HW.B4F340EE00B0C342059C0DC0@news.pacbell.net> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 953086320 158.252.164.50 (Tue, 14 Mar 2000 18:12:00 PST) Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 18:12:00 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-03-15T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: David Kristola wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 18:59:57 -0800, Thom Brooke wrote > (in message <38CDAA56.36B9E1C1@yahoo.com>): > > Does anyone have any ideas? > > I'm not sure if this helps any (it is late, and i didn't follow all > of your post, sorry). > > First, i think you might want to check out John Volan's page on the > "with-ing" problem (and solution). > > http://home.bluemarble.net/~jvolan/WithingProblem/FAQ.html > > Second, perhaps some sort of registration and match process could > help. Processors could register with some dispatcher (not tagged > type dispatching), and provide a pattern matcher that identifies > a byte pattern that will be accepted by the processor. Given new > input, the dispatcher would search down it's list of pattern > matchers until it finds a match, then call the associated processor. > > --djk > email not spam to David95037 (at the dot com called america on-line) Wow. Lots of information on that page. It's going to take a little while to dig through it all. I'll let you know if it helps. Thanks. -- -- Thom Brooke -- Cut out "_CUT_OUT" to get my real email address.