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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Array of Variant Records Question...
Date: 1999/09/14
Date: 1999-09-14T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7rlcis$css$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.BSF.4.10.9909132149240.5540-100000@shell5.ba.best.com

In article
<Pine.BSF.4.10.9909132149240.5540-100000@shell5.ba.best.com>,
  Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> wrote:
> In fact, I find it considerably less
> annoying than those cases where I have to explicitly
instantiate a
> generic subprogram when it is fairly obvious what I want.

Note that you gave the writer's point of view here, Your
point would have been stronger if you had said that it
was annoying to read someone else's code in which there is
an explicit instantiation which is obvious.

(I personally do NOT agree that implicit instantiations help
readability)


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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 ` 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             ` 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 [this message]
1999-09-14  0:00                     ` Brian Rogoff
1999-09-14  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-09  0:00             ` Matthew Heaney
1999-09-10  0:00               ` Mark Lundquist
1999-09-10  0:00                 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-09-11  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
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>
1999-09-22  0:00                       ` Array of Variant Records Question Robert I. Eachus
     [not found]                       ` <7rrmqd$l89@drn.newsguy.com>
     [not found]                         ` <wcciu59n2uf.fsf@world.std.com>
1999-09-22  0:00                           ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-09-23  0:00                             ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-23  0:00                               ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-09-11  0:00               ` Richard D Riehle
1999-09-13  0:00                 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-09-14  0:00                 ` Mark Lundquist
     [not found]                   ` <7roohh$s6r@dfw-ixnews7.ix.netcom.com>
     [not found]                     ` <37e01168@news1.prserv.net>
     [not found]                       ` <7rp86o$c6h@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>
     [not found]                         ` <37E18CC6.C8D431B@rational.com>
     [not found]                           ` <7rs8bn$s6@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com>
     [not found]                             ` <37e2e58c@news1.prserv.net>
1999-09-22  0:00                               ` 'constant functions' and access constant params (was Re: Array of Variant Records Question...) 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
1999-09-23  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
1999-09-22  0:00                                     ` Matthew Heaney
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                                           ` Richard D Riehle
1999-09-29  0:00                                             ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-29  0:00                                             ` Robert A Duff
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
1999-09-22  0:00                                 ` 'constant functions' and access constant params (was Re: Array of Variant Records Question...) Mark Lundquist
1999-09-22  0:00                                   ` Mark Lundquist
     [not found]                             ` <wccemfxn15s.fsf@world.std.com>
1999-09-22  0:00                               ` Richard D Riehle
1999-09-10  0:00             ` Proposed Ada features " 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
1999-09-09  0:00       ` Tucker Taft
1999-09-10  0:00         ` Nick Roberts
1999-09-08  0:00 ` Ted Dennison
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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