Re: ASCL a doomed idea?

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <3C16DD1F.E768B33@acm.org>, Jeffrey Carter says...
>existence. The additional protection this gets you over mostly safe
>Locations seems to be against pathological cases, misuse of a list of a
>kind that I've never actually seen in practice (and I've seen some
>pretty poor code using lists with completely unsafe Locations). So, I'm
>not sure complete safety is worth the effort, but I won't be bothered if
>it's deemed essential for the standard list.

That's pretty much my feelings on it too. But it does seem to be the case that
the current (safe) version of the Strawman is the only one that has not drawn
any complaints about the iterator implementation. I have to admit that students,
one of the target audiences of this facility, are quite likely to generate those
pathalogical cases of misuse. :-)

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