From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Enumeration representation
Date: 1999/09/13
Date: 1999-09-13T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7rjncp$7hg$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wccso4jar3z.fsf@world.std.com
In article <wccso4jar3z.fsf@world.std.com>,
Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com> wrote:
> That's a general problem with high-level languages: If there's
more than
> one "reasonable" way to implement some feature, you can end up
with
> portability problems. Formally, this is "just" an efficiency
issue, so
> the RM doesn't address it. But it's such a huge efficiency
issue that
> it affects your design.
This is not just an efficiency problem, it is a functionality
issue, since it effects mapping of these arrays onto external
data. It is not comparable to some of your other examples in
this respect, and I think we just missed this one, and we
should have caught it ...
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1999-09-10 0:00 Enumeration representation Alex
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-09-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-11 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-09-12 0:00 ` Bryce Bardin
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-12 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-09-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1999-09-10 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Alex
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2004-01-01 20:44 Luke A. Guest
2004-01-01 21:45 ` Stephen Leake
2004-01-01 22:01 ` Luke A. Guest
2004-01-02 1:17 ` tmoran
2004-01-02 1:29 ` Stephen Leake
2004-01-02 3:10 ` Luke A. Guest
2004-01-02 2:46 ` Robert A Duff
2004-01-02 3:12 ` Luke A. Guest
2004-01-02 13:58 ` Marin David Condic
2004-01-02 21:39 ` Pat Rogers
2004-01-03 13:42 ` Marin David Condic
2004-01-03 1:53 ` Robert A Duff
2004-01-02 20:52 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-01-02 21:05 ` Luke A. Guest
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