From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@shellx.best.com>
Subject: Re: The Red Language
Date: 1997/09/16
Date: 1997-09-16T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.95.970916190053.19184D-100000@shellx.best.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: EGIJ8B.MyM@world.std.com
On Sun, 14 Sep 1997, Robert A Duff wrote:
> In article <mheaney-ya023680001309970036280001@news.ni.net>,
> Matthew Heaney <mheaney@ni.net> wrote:
> Me too.
>
> >...Why do so many language designers think less of
> >function return types?
>
> Perhaps because it's harder to implement. In C++, you can do overload
> resolution in a single bottom up pass. Start at the leaves of the
> expression, and propagate the type of each expression up. In Ada, you
> need to propagate *sets* of types (or sets of interpretations, or some
> such) up the tree, and then you have to do a second (top down) pass to
> propagate the information back to the leaves.
Is this second pass strictly necessary? I seem to remember reading that it
is possible to do overload resolution in one pass in Ada.
-- Brian
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1997-09-04 0:00 ` The Red Language Robert Munck
1997-09-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-08 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1997-09-12 0:00 ` David Wheeler
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
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1997-09-05 0:00 ` Dean F. Sutherland
1997-09-08 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-09-09 0:00 ` Arthur Evans Jr
[not found] ` <dewar.873953300@merv>
1997-09-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-11 0:00 ` Dean F. Sutherland
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-09-11 0:00 ` Arthur Evans Jr
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-09-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-08 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Michael & Amy Hartsough
1997-09-13 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-09-14 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-09-16 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff [this message]
1997-09-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-18 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-09-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-18 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-09-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-22 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-09-18 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-09-18 0:00 ` Overload Resolution in Ada (Re: The Red Language) Brian Rogoff
1997-09-19 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-09-19 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-09-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-19 0:00 ` The Red Language Robert Dewar
1997-09-19 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-09-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-21 0:00 ` Algol 68 references (Was Re: The Red Language) Brian Rogoff
1997-09-22 0:00 ` Mark L. Fussell
1997-09-22 0:00 ` The Red Language Richard Kenner
1997-09-22 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1997-09-22 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-09-25 0:00 ` Bruce Link
1997-09-30 0:00 ` Charles Lindsey
1997-10-03 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-09-19 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-09-16 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
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