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From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Subject: Re: Chunks of finalized
Date: 1997/10/07
Date: 1997-10-07T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <61cje5$kq5$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: EHn0qA.n2p.0.-s@inmet.camb.inmet.com

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Thank you to all the people who offered suggestions.

stt@houdini.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft) writes:

>It might be easier to just take an extra generic IN parameter,
>an "Empty_Value" of the Stack_Element_Type.  This value could be
>used to initialize and reinitialize the stack elements.

All things considered, this is probably the neatest answer, in that
it works whether the element type is controlled or not.  It's clumsy,
because the same Empty_Value should work for all sorts of containers,
so it's unhelpful redundancy to have to keep on spelling it out.

-- 
John �neas Byron O'Keefe; 1921/02/04-1997/09/27; TLG,TLTA,BBTNOTL.
Richard A. O'Keefe; http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/%7Eok; RMIT Comp.Sci.




  reply	other threads:[~1997-10-07  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-10-03  0:00 Chunks of finalized Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-10-03  0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-10-03  0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1997-10-04  0:00   ` Robert A Duff
1997-10-06  0:00     ` Tucker Taft
1997-10-07  0:00       ` Richard A. O'Keefe [this message]
1997-10-05  0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
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