From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Array of Variant Records Question...
Date: 1999/09/09
Date: 1999-09-09T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7r8bvd$b1a$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 37d74dea@eeyore.callnetuk.com
In article <37d74dea@eeyore.callnetuk.com>,
"Nick Roberts" <nickroberts@callnetuk.com> wrote:
> As I suggested in a post a few months ago, such an array type
would be easy
> to add to Ada's existing syntax, easy and efficient to
implement (as an
> array of pointers plus a ragged sequence of objects,
internally), and very
> bloody useful, pardon the language. (It would have solved
Bruce's problem in
> a trice.)
Not at *all* easy to implement, the use of implicit pointers
is unacceptable for many reasons, and it is not at all easy
to see how to implement it without the use of implicit pointers.
I think this is NOT something you are likely to see in any
future revision of the language.
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Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-09-08 0:00 Array of Variant Records Question Bruce Detter
1999-09-08 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-09-08 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-09-08 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-09-08 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-09-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-09 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-09-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-09 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Mark Lundquist
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-09-11 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-09-14 0:00 ` "cast away const" (was Re: Array of Variant Records Question...) Mark Lundquist
[not found] ` <wccd7viiv59.fsf@world.std.com>
[not found] ` <7rrmqd$l89@drn.newsguy.com>
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1999-09-22 0:00 ` Array of Variant Records Question Robert I. Eachus
1999-09-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-23 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-09-22 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Mark Lundquist
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-09-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-11 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-09-14 0:00 ` Mark Lundquist
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[not found] ` <37E18CC6.C8D431B@rational.com>
[not found] ` <7rs8bn$s6@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com>
[not found] ` <wccemfxn15s.fsf@world.std.com>
1999-09-22 0:00 ` 'constant functions' and access constant params (was Re: Array of Variant Records Question...) Richard D Riehle
[not found] ` <37e2e58c@news1.prserv.net>
1999-09-22 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-09-22 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-09-22 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-09-22 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-09-22 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-09-23 0:00 ` Vincent Marciante
1999-09-23 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-09-24 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-09-25 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-09-27 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-09-27 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-09-27 0:00 ` David Kristola
1999-09-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-27 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28 0:00 ` "Competence" (was: 'constant functions' and access constant params) Ted Dennison
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28 0:00 ` 'constant functions' and access constant params (was Re: Array of Variant Records Question...) Robert Dewar
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-22 0:00 ` Mark Lundquist
1999-09-22 0:00 ` Mark Lundquist
1999-09-09 0:00 ` Array of Variant Records Question Brian Rogoff
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-09-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-14 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Proposed Ada features (was Re: Array of Variant Records Question...) Mark Lundquist
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-09-10 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-09-09 0:00 ` Array of Variant Records Question Matthew Heaney
1999-09-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-09 0:00 ` Mark Lundquist
1999-09-09 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-09-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1999-09-09 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-09-08 0:00 ` Martin C. Carlisle
1999-09-08 0:00 ` Thank you Bruce Detter
1999-09-08 0:00 ` Martin C. Carlisle
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