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From: Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Interresting difference in Normal-Returns/Expression-Functions and Extended-Returns.
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:00:20 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2013-04-23T16:00:20-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b3c264c9-382e-40f6-a44a-6964f2c65a8d@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lya9opdwaz.fsf@pushface.org>

On Tuesday, April 23, 2013 10:52:04 AM UTC-6, Simon Wright wrote:
> 
> By the way, what's the significance of 'constant' in 'not null access
> constant Testing'?

It means you can't swap the task-access out w/ a new allocator -- Though you might not be able to do that anyway. -- I was going for the most constrained types/conditions possible while I was experimenting.

> 
> > The moral: Whether or not you think anonymous access types are evil,
> > anonymous access types to *tasks* definitely can have some surprising
> > consequences (because of the task termination and dependency rules),
> > and should be avoided.
> 

Yes; this was surprising. Though this brings up an interesting point: how would you be able to have an array of tasks that have a discriminant?



  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-04-23 23:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-22 18:27 Interresting difference in Normal-Returns/Expression-Functions and Extended-Returns Shark8
2013-04-22 19:13 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-04-22 20:11   ` Shark8
2013-04-23  6:15     ` Simon Wright
2013-04-23  7:35     ` Stephen Leake
2013-04-23  8:58     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-05-02  2:20     ` Randy Brukardt
2013-05-02  4:41       ` Shark8
2013-04-23  6:32 ` egilhh
2013-04-23 15:24   ` Adam Beneschan
2013-04-24  5:56     ` egilhh
2013-04-24 14:40       ` Adam Beneschan
2013-04-25  5:30         ` egilhh
2013-04-25  5:41           ` Shark8
2013-04-23 16:00 ` Adam Beneschan
2013-04-23 16:52   ` Simon Wright
2013-04-23 17:57     ` Adam Beneschan
2013-04-25  8:48       ` egilhh
2013-04-25 15:19         ` Adam Beneschan
2013-05-02  2:33         ` Randy Brukardt
2013-05-02  2:38       ` Randy Brukardt
2013-05-02 16:15         ` Adam Beneschan
2013-05-02 22:00           ` Randy Brukardt
2013-05-03  1:11         ` Adam Beneschan
2013-05-03  5:34           ` Simon Wright
2013-05-03  6:43           ` egilhh
2013-05-03 16:49             ` Adam Beneschan
2013-05-03 23:09           ` Randy Brukardt
2013-04-23 23:00     ` Shark8 [this message]
2013-04-23 23:16       ` Adam Beneschan
2013-05-02  2:28   ` Randy Brukardt
2013-05-02 16:37     ` Adam Beneschan
2013-04-23 16:33 ` Simon Wright
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