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From: Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org>
Subject: Re: User-defined access dereference
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 00:23:25 GMT
Date: 2001-08-18T00:23:25+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B7DB563.82D3F842@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3B7DAEA0.60043A96@gsde.hou.us.ray.com

"Stanley R. Allen" wrote:
> 
> Now we are faced with another situation in which it would be nice to replace
> ".all".  This time, there are over 10,000 dereferences in over a million lines
> of code, so it's out of the question to do to this code what was done to the
> other code before.  (The latest issue is the need to error-check each reference
> because it's possible for 'remote' references to have recoverable point failures
> in a what is essentially 'reflected memory' for a Linux cluster.)
>
> Any thoughts?

I think you should make your access type private. Then any dereferences,
explicit or implicit, will be illegal, and the compiler will catch any
you miss.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"I blow my nose on you."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail



  reply	other threads:[~2001-08-18  0:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-17 23:54 User-defined access dereference Stanley R. Allen
2001-08-18  0:23 ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
2001-08-20 14:26   ` Ted Dennison
2001-08-18  5:48 ` Dave Adlam
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