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From: "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Slices of 2d arrays?
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 17:09:16 -0400
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Yes, please cite this principle.  I would like to see where this principle
was first stated since it does seem to be a rather intuitive principle.

-CRM

"Robert A Duff" <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote in message
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> dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) writes:
>
> > However, as soon as you extend slices to >1D arrays, the
> > feature no longer obeys the "Bauer Principle" which says
> > that you should not pay overhead for a feature unless
> > you use it.
>
> Who is Bauer?  Can you give a cite for his principle?
>
> I've always tried to obey this principle, but I never knew it had a
> name.
>
> - Bob