From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,953e1a6689d791f6 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,953e1a6689d791f6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: Eiffel and Java + Ada dispatching Date: 1996/11/02 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 193863335 sender: news@organon.com (news) references: <550sm2$sn1@buggy.news.easynet.net> organization: Organon Motives, Inc. newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-11-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <6Jw2qfNk3RB@herold.franken.de> jhd@herold.franken.de (Joachim Durchholz) writes: > jsa@alexandria wrote 31.10.96: > > > I guess you like system validity problems. I wish I hadn't said this - it was too flip. > *However*, there is a proposal floating around that allows static type > checking without having to resort to system-wide checks, and this is > commonly regarded as an advance over system validity and run-time checks. I've heard about this - is there a pointer to the details? On the Eiffel home page? /Jon -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com