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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: generic package dilemma
Date: 1999/11/23
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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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