From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: generic package dilemma
Date: 1999/11/23
Date: 1999-11-23T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <81cs27$usc$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wccyabqfldi.fsf@world.std.com
In article <wccyabqfldi.fsf@world.std.com>,
Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com> wrote:
> They could have rewritten it
> to say what they always meant, but instead they chose to go
with
> run-time checking -- I presume because that makes things
simpler by
> avoiding a link-time analysis of the entire program's call
graph.
That's not my memory! I think what happened was that there was
a realization that given the fundamental elaboration semantics
that had been agreed on, there WAS no static solution. If I
remember right, it was Bryce who came up with the worrisome
examples, but that's a long time ago :-)
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Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-11-17 0:00 generic package dilemma Riyaz Mansoor
1999-11-17 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-11-17 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1999-11-17 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-11-18 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1999-11-18 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-11-19 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1999-11-19 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-11-19 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-11-19 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1999-11-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-22 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-11-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-29 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1999-12-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-12-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-03 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-22 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1999-11-22 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-11-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-11-22 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-11-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-22 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1999-11-22 0:00 ` Bryce Bardin
1999-11-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-19 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-11-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-22 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-11-19 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-11-20 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1999-11-18 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-11-18 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-11-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-18 0:00 ` Riyaz Mansoor
1999-11-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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