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From: "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: ASCL a doomed idea?
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 22:40:41 -0500
Date: 2001-12-10T22:40:41-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9v64ko$1aj8$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3C156471.A32FC79C@acm.org

Which makes absolutely no difference.  Executable code and states can be
represented with variables.  A passive iterator is a storable iterator state
machine.  These machines do iterate, and so, your assertion is false.

"Jeffrey Carter" <jrcarter@acm.org> wrote in message
news:3C156471.A32FC79C@acm.org...
> "Chad R. Meiners" wrote:
> >
> > "Jeffrey Carter" <jeffrey.carter@boeing.com> wrote in message
> > news:3C153926.102B17B1@boeing.com...
> >
> > > By definition: An iterator is something that iterates. Executable code
> > > can iterate. Types and objects cannot.
> >
> > Think back to your computation theory.  Executable code is an object.
>
> Think back to the name of this newsgroup. In Ada, an object is something
> with a subtype attached, such as a variable or constant.
>
> --
> Jeff Carter
> "Hello! Smelly English K...niggets."
> Monty Python & the Holy Grail





  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-11  3:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-06 20:26 ASCL a doomed idea? Michael Erdmann
2001-12-06 20:49 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-12-09 19:07   ` Nick Roberts
2001-12-09 21:37     ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-12-10 19:36       ` Nick Roberts
2001-12-10 22:37         ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-12-10 23:30           ` Chad R. Meiners
2001-12-11  1:42             ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-12-11  3:40               ` Chad R. Meiners [this message]
2001-12-11 14:45           ` Mark Lundquist
2001-12-11 15:06             ` Ted Dennison
2001-12-11 15:09               ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2001-12-11 17:18               ` Stephen Leake
2001-12-12  4:29               ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-12-12 14:40                 ` Ted Dennison
2001-12-11 15:25             ` Larry Hazel
2001-12-12  4:21             ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-12-12 14:32               ` Stephen Leake
2001-12-12 19:40               ` Mark Lundquist
2001-12-16 13:23               ` Georg Bauhaus
2001-12-11 14:45         ` Mark Lundquist
2001-12-11 15:11           ` Ted Dennison
2001-12-11 17:43             ` Nick Roberts
2001-12-12  0:37               ` Mark Lundquist
2001-12-12  4:31           ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-12-11 22:45         ` Mark Lundquist
2001-12-12  1:39           ` Nick Roberts
2001-12-12 10:08             ` Ian Wild
2001-12-12 17:03               ` Nick Roberts
2001-12-12 22:09                 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-12-12 14:34             ` Marin David Condic
2001-12-11 14:45       ` Mark Lundquist
2001-12-12  4:32         ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-12-12 14:48           ` Ted Dennison
2001-12-12 17:02           ` Nick Roberts
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