From: John English <je@brighton.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: List Container Straw Man (NJR V5R1)
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 13:04:17 +0000
Date: 2001-12-05T13:52:46+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C0E1B51.253F5E98@brighton.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9u6ahm$6gdc1$1@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de
Nick Roberts wrote:
>
> (3) instead of having numbered cursors inside the list object, it would be
> possible to provide a separate cursor type, objects of which would be
> attached to a specific list object by an Open procedure (and detached by a
> Close).
Why bother with Open and Close? Why not just operations like First(L)
(which returns an iterator pointing to the first element of list L)
to generate iterator/cursor values on demand? I'm not sure I see the
point of what you're proposing...
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-29 21:46 List Container Straw Man (NJR V5R1) Nick Roberts
2001-11-29 21:59 ` Nick Roberts
2001-11-30 1:51 ` Nick Roberts
2001-11-30 1:58 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-11-30 17:07 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-11-30 22:05 ` Nick Roberts
2001-12-01 2:12 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-12-01 3:10 ` Nick Roberts
2001-12-05 13:04 ` John English [this message]
2001-12-06 17:36 ` Nick Roberts
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