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From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>
Subject: Re: Elimination of "use" clauses
Date: 1999/07/22
Date: 1999-07-22T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907222010560.386-100000@shell5.ba.best.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7n87ta$86j$1@nnrp1.deja.com

On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Robert Dewar wrote:
> In article
> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907211854070.23477-100000@shell5.ba.best.com>,
>   Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> wrote:
> > I'm not fond of this aspect of the language design process,
> since there
> > are features that I think add something to the expressiveness
> of the
> > language which were omitted because strong constituencies
> abhorred them.
> 
> 
> Well you seem to be saying that
> 
> a) I am not fond of the fact that useful features that I would
> have liked have been omitted from the language. They should
> have payed more attention to people like me.

Exactly!! 
 
> b) I don't like the process whereby they pay attention to what
> people think, and follow these recommendations

No, its just that the wrong people are being paid attention to. :-)

-- Brian






  reply	other threads:[~1999-07-22  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-07-01  0:00 Elimination of "use" clauses Dr. Neil C. Audsley
1999-07-01  0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1999-07-01  0:00 ` czgrr
1999-07-01  0:00   ` Ted Dennison
1999-07-02  0:00     ` czgrr
1999-07-02  0:00       ` Ted Dennison
1999-07-01  0:00 ` Joe Wisniewski
1999-07-02  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-02  0:00   ` Samuel T. Harris
1999-07-02  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-08  0:00       ` R. Tim Coslet
1999-07-09  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-09  0:00           ` tmoran
     [not found]       ` <7ltl2q$mog$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
1999-07-08  0:00         ` Michael F. Yoder
1999-07-09  0:00           ` Richard D Riehle
1999-07-09  0:00             ` Marin David Condic
1999-07-09  0:00             ` Michael F. Yoder
1999-07-09  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-09  0:00             ` Michael F. Yoder
1999-07-14  0:00               ` Tucker Taft
1999-07-09  0:00             ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-07-12  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-12  0:00                 ` Ted Dennison
1999-07-10  0:00             ` Simon Wright
1999-07-12  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-02  0:00   ` Ted Dennison
1999-07-02  0:00     ` Stephen Leake
1999-07-02  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
     [not found]       ` <7ltus1$ah1@dfw-ixnews19.ix.netcom.com>
1999-07-13  0:00         ` Robert A Duff
1999-07-18  0:00           ` Richard D Riehle
1999-07-18  0:00             ` jerry
1999-07-19  0:00               ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-07-20  0:00               ` Richard D Riehle
1999-07-20  0:00                 ` Opaque Types (was Elimination of "use" clauses) David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-07-20  0:00                 ` Elimination of "use" clauses jerry
1999-07-18  0:00             ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-07-20  0:00               ` David Kristola
1999-07-20  0:00               ` Richard D Riehle
1999-07-19  0:00                 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-07-20  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-20  0:00                     ` Brian Rogoff
1999-07-21  0:00                       ` Ted Dennison
1999-07-21  0:00                         ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-21  0:00                         ` Robert A Duff
1999-07-21  0:00                       ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-21  0:00                         ` Brian Rogoff
1999-07-22  0:00                           ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-22  0:00                             ` Brian Rogoff
1999-07-22  0:00                           ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-22  0:00                             ` Brian Rogoff [this message]
1999-07-21  0:00                     ` Robert A Duff
1999-07-21  0:00                       ` Michael F. Yoder
1999-07-21  0:00                         ` Robert A Duff
1999-07-23  0:00                 ` Tucker Taft
1999-08-03  0:00                   ` Richard D Riehle
1999-07-19  0:00             ` Ted Dennison
1999-07-19  0:00               ` Tucker Taft
1999-07-19  0:00                 ` Ted Dennison
1999-07-02  0:00     ` Ed Falis
1999-07-02  0:00   ` Ed Falis
1999-07-03  0:00     ` Joe Wisniewski
1999-07-03  0:00       ` Ed Falis
1999-07-03  0:00       ` Keith Thompson
1999-07-13  0:00     ` Peter Amey
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