From: jsa@alexandria.synquiry.com (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: limited/non-limited in Ada95
Date: 1997/10/21
Date: 1997-10-21T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <JSA.97Oct21183315@alexandria.synquiry.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.877425501@merv
In article <dewar.877425501@merv> dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
> The view for the implementation most certainly can have limited semantics.
Anything is _possible_. It's just not reasonable in this case. Of
course I looked at this sort of approach. It sucks even more than
forcing reference semantics.
> the full view is limited is not a problem. But this way you can preserve
> the abstraction. I see no problem in writing a GC implementation using
> this approach, and in fact we worked out exactly how to do this in the
> context of the GNAT project, though no one ever followed through with
I'm not talking about situations where you can have privleged
knowledge and support by/from the compiler. Sure, in that sort of
case the entire issue is irrelevant (but proprietary and tied to a
single implementation).
/Jon
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-10-13 0:00 limited/non-limited in Ada95 Tom Moran
1997-10-16 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-10-17 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-10-18 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-10-18 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-10-19 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-10-19 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-10-21 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-10-21 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-10-21 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-10-18 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-10-21 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-10-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-10-21 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony [this message]
1997-10-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-10-22 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-10-21 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-10-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-10-22 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-10-22 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-10-23 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-10-23 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-10-23 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-10-24 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1997-10-21 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
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