From: "Peter C. Chapin" <pchapin@sover.net>
Subject: Re: Question about controlled types.
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:31:09 -0500
Date: 2008-02-07T22:31:09-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47abccfb$0$32523$4d3efbfe@news.sover.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <wccprv8loec.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Robert A Duff wrote:
> Right, the C++ way has the advantage that a single operation can get its
> hands on the left- and right-hand sides at the same time. The reason
> Ada doesn't have this feature is that we couldn't figure out how to make
> it work for records whose discriminants can change. And we couldn't
> simply outlaw that case, because it would introduce a violation of the
> generic contract model.
That's interesting thanks.
Peter
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2008-02-07 1:19 Question about controlled types Peter C. Chapin
2008-02-07 4:54 ` Hyman Rosen
2008-02-07 16:30 ` Robert A Duff
2008-02-08 3:31 ` Peter C. Chapin [this message]
2008-02-08 3:47 ` Peter C. Chapin
2008-02-07 16:47 ` Adam Beneschan
2008-02-08 3:46 ` Peter C. Chapin
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