From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Parameter Modes, In In Out and Out
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 21:10:56 GMT
Date: 2001-01-14T21:10:56+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <93t4kr$vec$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3A61EC64.A61FDF61@acm.org
In article <3A61EC64.A61FDF61@acm.org>,
Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org> wrote:
> Also, this guideline is apparent to application developers,
> while ease of migration for Ada-83 vendors is not.
Indeed! Actually that's a special case that ease (and
realiability) of implementation are criteria that are not
very visible (or easy to evaluate) from an application
developer point of view. There are lots of things that
would make life easier for a programmer that would not
make implementors happy.
A good example is overloading. The clean definition of
overloading would simply be that for any expression if
there is one interpretation, then its right, if there
is more than one, it is wrong.
Although that is the general spirit of the overloading
rules, it turns out we have to make some nasty exceptions,
and make some things illegal even though there is only
one possible interpretation, to keep things reasonable :-)
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2001-01-06 0:11 Parameter Modes, In In Out and Out i.a.mcleod
2001-01-06 4:58 ` tmoran
2001-01-06 17:06 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-06 19:50 ` tmoran
2001-01-06 20:31 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-07 1:59 ` John English
2001-01-07 3:51 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-08 12:06 ` dmitry6243
2001-01-09 4:32 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-09 10:05 ` dmitry6243
2001-01-09 4:35 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-09 9:58 ` dmitry6243
2001-01-09 14:13 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-09 18:29 ` dmitry6243
2001-01-09 19:55 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-10 0:47 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-10 21:50 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-10 9:23 ` dmitry6243
2001-01-10 21:46 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-11 11:46 ` dmitry6243
2001-01-11 16:48 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-11 19:52 ` Thierry Lelegard
2001-01-11 20:10 ` Pascal Obry
2001-01-12 8:05 ` Florian Weimer
2001-01-12 13:31 ` gasperon
2001-01-12 14:02 ` n_brunot
2001-01-12 17:26 ` charlet
2001-01-14 18:23 ` n_brunot
2001-01-14 21:05 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-15 8:56 ` n_brunot
2001-01-12 11:05 ` dmitry6243
2001-01-12 13:55 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-12 22:10 ` Dale Stanbrough
2001-01-13 1:13 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-13 17:29 ` dmitry6243
2001-01-13 18:22 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-13 22:32 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-14 6:02 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-01-14 14:33 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-14 18:14 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-01-14 21:10 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
2001-01-14 20:45 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-14 14:23 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-14 20:42 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-14 21:17 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-15 20:57 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-15 16:25 ` dmitry6243
2001-02-02 7:06 ` Multiple dispatch (was " mark_lundquist
2001-02-02 13:49 ` dmitry6243
2001-01-16 12:22 ` Georg Bauhaus
2001-01-13 4:46 ` Larry Kilgallen
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2001-01-13 6:00 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-11 21:38 ` mark_lundquist
2001-01-12 0:20 ` John English
2001-01-12 13:57 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-12 20:34 ` mark_lundquist
2001-01-13 18:06 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-11 21:28 ` mark_lundquist
2001-01-12 12:35 ` dmitry6243
2001-01-12 21:22 ` mark_lundquist
2001-01-13 1:16 ` Robert Dewar
2001-02-02 5:42 ` mark_lundquist
2001-02-02 14:55 ` Stephen Leake
2001-02-02 20:08 ` Robert Dewar
2001-02-05 15:00 ` Stephen Leake
2001-01-13 21:26 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2001-01-11 21:24 ` mark_lundquist
2001-01-12 12:13 ` dmitry6243
2001-01-06 16:21 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2001-01-09 15:15 ` Thierry Lelegard
2001-01-10 21:53 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-07 19:15 ` DuckE
2001-01-09 20:44 ` Laurent Guerby
2001-01-09 21:46 ` Florian Weimer
2001-01-10 21:57 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-10 23:51 ` Tucker Taft
2001-01-11 4:23 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-11 19:28 ` Laurent Guerby
2001-01-18 18:53 ` FAROOQATIF
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