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Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 19:49:14 +0100
From: Jean-Marc Bourguet <jbourguet@free.fr>
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Ted Dennison wrote:
> 
> In article <9sjf4n$odm$1@news.huji.ac.il>, Ehud Lamm says...
> >
> >If I am seeing correctly we are still stuck with the library level
> >instantiation bussiness.
> >I must say that it seems to me that I'd rather ditch the Controlled type,
> >and remove this obstacle.
> >
> >Don't others detest this as much as I do?
> 
> Well, as I remember the discussion last time, to get rid of that you'd have to
> get rid of the functional notation (by making List limited). The general
> consensus seemed to be that this was undesirable.

Even if the list is limited (something I would not object to, I don't see
much use for a non limited list where the assignement does make a copy of
the list), it has to be controlled or you'll have a memory leak or impose
to call a cleanup procedure.

-- 
Jean-Marc