From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: Cumbersome Polymorphism
Date: 1997/01/27
Date: 1997-01-27T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <JSA.97Jan27145652@alexandria> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5c9put$48t@hetre.wanadoo.fr
In article <dewar.854255869@merv> dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
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> From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
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> JPR wrote
>
> > The problems of allocation and deallocation are hidden from the
> > Smalltalk programmer (and from the Ada programmer, if you can find a
> > garbage-collected implementation of Ada, which isn't easy). But the
>
>
> It is perfectly possible to hide allocation and deallocatoin from an
> Ada programmer -- just look at Ada.Unbounded.Strings as an example.
> Note that this also shows that variable length items can be handled
> in a completely transparent manner.
You forgot to add "and sllllooooowwwwwww" to the end of your last
sentence. Unless you mean that Unbound_Strings should have a GC'd
implementation. In which case you would simply be agreeing with Bob.
/Jon
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-01-23 0:00 Cumbersome Polymorphism Richard Irvine
[not found] ` <5c9put$48t@hetre.wanadoo.fr>
1997-01-25 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-01-25 0:00 ` James O'Connor
1997-01-26 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-01-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-01-25 0:00 ` James O'Connor
1997-01-27 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony [this message]
1997-01-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-01-27 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1997-01-28 0:00 ` Richard Irvine
1997-01-28 0:00 ` Dave Gibson
1997-01-28 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
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