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From: Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: why access parameter in stream attributes to begin with, instead of in or in/out ?
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 15:48:22 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2018-06-11T15:48:22-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cb1b3f8b-bf3b-4768-99af-5575a55cf682@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c4617fea-6f2d-4a43-b701-8c8dcbfb332c@googlegroups.com>

On Monday, June 11, 2018 at 3:49:28 PM UTC-6, Mehdi Saada wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I wondered why in Ichibiah's design, in the beginning, stream have been made to work with access types/access parameters ?
Hard to say; his design [Ada83] didn't have streams.

> I could have imagined that the attributes would work with a in/out stream parameter, and stream(blabla) would give an object of stream type.
> I don't know if storing streams' access values for later use is common, one would just have to add .all when appropriate...
Good questions, I want to say it's not common to pop access-type via streams, but maybe I'm just unadventurous.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-11 22:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-11 21:49 why access parameter in stream attributes to begin with, instead of in or in/out ? Mehdi Saada
2018-06-11 22:48 ` Shark8 [this message]
2018-06-11 23:17   ` Randy Brukardt
2018-06-12  6:28 ` Mehdi Saada
2018-06-12  8:30   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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