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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Enumeration representation
Date: 1999/09/13
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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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