From: mockturtle <framefritti@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Language lawyer question: task activation
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:07:42 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2009-02-20T04:07:42-08:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: 24bdd0df-9554-49de-9c5e-99572c9cdf34@g38g2000yqd.googlegroups.com
On Feb 20, 12:14 pm, christoph.gr...@eurocopter.com wrote:
> On Feb 20, 11:44 am, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:43:53 -0800 (PST), christoph.gr...@eurocopter.com
> > wrote:
>
> > > On Feb 19, 6:57 pm, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
> > > wrote:
> > >> ... and Pickwickian functions ...
>
> > > What are Pickwickian functions?
>
> > Ada 2005 functions returning limited objects, now comes it, by what? It is
> > neither by-value, nor by-reference...
>
> It's build-in-place.
Sorry, maybe is slightly OT, but... Why this name? The
Webster gives the following definition
1 : marked by simplicity and generosity
2 : intended or taken in a sense other than the obvious or literal one
while googling I obtain lots of reference to "Pickwickian syndrome".
The link with "Pickwickian functions" is rather obscure to me...
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Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-19 17:37 Language lawyer question: task activation Adam Beneschan
2009-02-19 17:57 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-02-19 23:57 ` Robert A Duff
2009-02-20 13:22 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-02-23 7:36 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2009-02-20 5:43 ` christoph.grein
2009-02-20 10:44 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-02-20 11:14 ` christoph.grein
2009-02-20 12:07 ` mockturtle [this message]
2009-02-20 13:22 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-02-20 16:45 ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-02-20 18:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-02-20 22:19 ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-02-21 8:31 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-02-27 23:29 ` Randy Brukardt
2009-02-28 8:13 ` Why constructing functions is a mess [was Language lawyer question: task activation (was: Language lawyer question: task activation)) Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-02-28 12:20 ` Why constructing functions is a mess [was Language lawyer question: task activation Georg Bauhaus
2009-02-28 13:45 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-02-28 15:36 ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-02-28 16:22 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-02-28 17:19 ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-02-28 17:48 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-02-28 18:39 ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-02-28 20:17 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-03-02 16:13 ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-03-02 17:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-03-02 18:50 ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-03-02 21:02 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-03-03 7:04 ` christoph.grein
2009-03-03 8:45 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-03-03 9:27 ` christoph.grein
2009-03-03 9:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-03-03 19:13 ` Pascal Obry
2009-03-04 5:29 ` christoph.grein
2009-03-04 8:32 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-03-04 9:05 ` christoph.grein
2009-03-04 9:47 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-02-28 23:12 ` Maciej Sobczak
2009-03-01 8:23 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-02-19 23:54 ` Robert A Duff
2009-02-20 10:18 ` Robert_Matthews
2009-02-20 10:34 ` christoph.grein
2009-02-20 14:16 ` Robert A Duff
2009-02-20 16:57 ` Robert_Matthews
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