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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5ee499d03212eed3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-09 13:23:31 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!sjcppf01.usenetserver.com!usenetserver.com!news-west.rr.com!lsnws01.we.mediaone.net!typhoon.san.rr.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3BC35CC1.8A05DCE3@san.rr.com> From: Darren New Organization: Boxes! X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Dynamic dispatch again References: <3BC34F54.BD6B5EDE@san.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 20:23:46 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.75.151.160 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: typhoon.san.rr.com 1002659026 66.75.151.160 (Tue, 09 Oct 2001 13:23:46 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 13:23:46 PDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14083 Date: 2001-10-09T20:23:46+00:00 List-Id: tmoran@acm.org wrote: > >writing up a spec I *know* can't be implemented. > "It's a digital computer. It can compute anything, eventually." ;) Not helpful. Nor true. :-) Not even true in this case. I.e., it's pointless to write a big spec that's missing a piece that can't be filled in because the language doesn't support it. What I'm trying to figure out is whether the language supports it in an unobvious way, since it seems very strange to me that it wouldn't. -- Darren New San Diego, CA, USA (PST). Cryptokeys on demand. Who is this Dr. Ibid anyway, and how does he know so much?