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From: Jeffrey Carter <jeffrey.carter@boeing.com>
Subject: Re: list strawman
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 17:38:43 GMT
Date: 2002-01-11T17:38:43+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C3F2323.F5D52DBF@boeing.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: MPG.16a773835262e16d989683@news.ip-plus.net

Thomas Wolf wrote:
> 
> jrcarter@acm.org wrote:
> > I realize I've been away for a while and may not have seen some minor
> > changes to the functionality, but "=" for Elements is not needed to
> > implement a list. "=" is not used, so there's no need to specify it in
> > the generic formal part.
> 
> Yes, element equality is need to implement list equality.

Ah, yes, I forgot that the list type is not limited. Sorry. While I can
live with this, it seems like a mistake to me, since list assignment and
equality comparison are not common operations in my experience, and can
be implemented easily and with no loss of efficiency by the client in
the few cases where they are needed.

-- 
Jeffrey Carter



  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-11 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-06 20:55 list strawman Stephen Leake
2002-01-07 15:56 ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-07 15:57   ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-07 16:33   ` Stephen Leake
2002-01-07 16:37     ` Stephen Leake
2002-01-07 19:31       ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-07 19:26     ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-07 22:05       ` Stephen Leake
2002-01-07 22:51         ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-08  0:48           ` Steven Deller
2002-01-08 15:32             ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-08 15:43               ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2002-01-08 17:07                 ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-08 17:21                   ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2002-01-08 19:12                     ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-09  8:09                       ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2002-01-09 18:37                         ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-11  9:37                           ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2002-01-11 17:03                             ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-11 17:47                               ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-01-12 15:10                               ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2002-01-13 10:18                                 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2002-01-14 16:02                                 ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-14 16:22                                   ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2002-01-08 19:57                     ` Steven Deller
2002-01-08 19:54                 ` Steven Deller
2002-01-08 19:54               ` Steven Deller
2002-01-08 20:46                 ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-08 21:21                   ` Stephen Leake
2002-01-08 21:49                     ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-09  9:21                       ` Thomas Wolf
2002-01-09 15:20                         ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-09 15:53                           ` Stephen Leake
2002-01-09 21:21                             ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-09 17:42                         ` Mark Lundquist
2002-01-09 21:02                           ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-01-10  8:47                             ` Thomas Wolf
2002-01-11 17:38                               ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
2002-01-11 21:52                                 ` Chad Robert Meiners
2002-01-12  5:45                                   ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-01-12 22:20                                     ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-01-13 17:03                                       ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-01-13 23:47                                         ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-01-14  1:32                                           ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-14  5:12                                           ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-01-14  5:12                                           ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-01-10 14:39                           ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-11  5:34                             ` Mark Biggar
2002-01-12 12:20                               ` Simon Wright
2002-01-14 14:53                                 ` Matthew Heaney
2002-01-16  5:56                                   ` Simon Wright
2002-01-18  9:15                           ` Overridability of _private_ predefined "=" [was Re: list strawman] Vincent Marciante
2002-01-19 16:58                             ` Vincent Marciante
2002-01-19 22:42                               ` Nick Roberts
2002-01-09  3:10                     ` list strawman Ted Dennison
2002-01-09 19:09                       ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-08 21:26               ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-01-08 22:13                 ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-09 20:52               ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-02-17 15:04 ` Florian Weimer
2002-02-17 15:05 ` Florian Weimer
2002-02-18  1:43   ` Stephen Leake
2002-02-18  8:57     ` Florian Weimer
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