From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@best.com>
To: Jon S Anthony <jsa@alexandria>
Subject: Re: Reading a line of arbitrary length
Date: 1997/02/21
Date: 1997-02-21T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.95.970221224632.11961B-100000@shellx.best.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: JSA.97Feb21210228@alexandria
On 22 Feb 1997, Jon S Anthony wrote:
> In article <dewar.856305993@merv> dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
>
> > Jon said
> >
> > <<That's impressive. Too bad it won't be portable. :>>
> >
> > The unfortunate thing is the restrictions on the use of Access
> > being applied to nested procedures. These restrictions were considered
> > necessary during the design phase of Ada 95, to make it more practical
> > for compilers using displays (notably Alsys and RR) to implement access
> > to procedure.
>
> You don't _really_ want to open up _that_ discussion again, do you?
> :-) :-)
That was actually a good discussion, much better than all of this
OO and C++ stuff ;-).
Seriously, I was convinced at the end of that discussion that the
restriction was necessary for "political" reasons. But stuff like this
library makes me more sore about it. Ada could have been a better language.
Oh well.
> We all know about the closure stuff...
And the iterator stuff...
It would be an interesting experimental addition to GNAT to support
Pascalish function arguments, or even (as R. O'Keefe suggested) anonymous
"downward closures" in function arguments.
-- Brian
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Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-02-12 0:00 Reading a line of arbitrary length Thomas Koenig
1997-02-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-12 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1997-02-13 0:00 ` Jeff Carter
1997-02-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1997-02-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-02-13 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1997-02-13 0:00 ` Rex Reges
1997-02-15 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-02-19 0:00 ` Jean-Etienne Doucet
1997-02-21 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1997-02-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-13 0:00 ` Rex Reges
[not found] ` <dewar.855848896@merv>
[not found] ` <33037A74.44AF@mds.lmco.com>
[not found] ` <dewar.855929857@merv>
1997-02-14 0:00 ` Rex Reges
1997-02-14 0:00 ` Gene Ouye
1997-02-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-15 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-02-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-16 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-02-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-14 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1997-02-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-17 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1997-02-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <dsmith-1302971702290001@dsmith.clark.net>
[not found] ` <33047186.463F@mds.lmco.com>
1997-02-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-14 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1997-02-16 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-02-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-22 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-02-21 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff [this message]
1997-02-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-22 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-02-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-25 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-02-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-27 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-03 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-03-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-03 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-03-04 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-03 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-03 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-04 0:00 ` Thomas Koenig
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <dewar.857447653@m <JSA.97Mar4154951@alexandria>
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-03 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-03 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-04 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Really more GC talk (was: Reading a line of arbitrary length) Larry Kilgallen
1997-03-11 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-03-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-12 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-03-04 0:00 ` Reading a line of arbitrary length Jon S Anthony
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-02-16 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-02-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-16 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-02-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-25 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-04 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-11 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
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