Re: List container strawman

[Vincent Marciante <marciant_remove@li.net>]

Jeffrey Carter wrote:
> 
> Matthew Heaney wrote:
> >
> > "Jeffrey Carter" <jeffrey.carter@boeing.com> wrote in message
> > news:3BE3235D.E292B890@boeing.com...
> > > Another place where some compiler writers use tricks is the interaction
> > > between a random number Generator value and the Random function.

<snip>

> > No heap allocation or compiler magic is needed to implement Generator; just
> > use the Rosen Trick:
> 
> Yes, that is a trick that can be used (although your example has a
> couple of errors). Was it known before standardization? I somehow
> suspect it would have been outlawed if it were.
> 
> GNAT uses

<snip> 

> I wonder if there is some advantage to this trick over the Rosen
> trick.

IIRC

The GNAT code was written before the Rosen Trick was first described.
The GNAT code worked and there was no important reason to change it.
If the Rosen Trick was known at the time, it would have been used. 

Vincent Marciante