From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Cumbersome Polymorphism
Date: 1997/01/26
Date: 1997-01-26T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.854255869@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 32EAA1A0.7C43@jmpstart.com
JPR wrote
> The problems of allocation and deallocation are hidden from the
> Smalltalk programmer (and from the Ada programmer, if you can find a
> garbage-collected implementation of Ada, which isn't easy). But the
It is perfectly possible to hide allocation and deallocatoin from an
Ada programmer -- just look at Ada.Unbounded.Strings as an example.
Note that this also shows that variable length items can be handled
in a completely transparent manner.
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1997-01-23 0:00 Cumbersome Polymorphism Richard Irvine
[not found] ` <5c9put$48t@hetre.wanadoo.fr>
1997-01-25 0:00 ` James O'Connor
1997-01-25 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-01-25 0:00 ` James O'Connor
1997-01-26 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-01-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1997-01-27 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-01-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-01-27 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1997-01-28 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-01-28 0:00 ` Dave Gibson
1997-01-28 0:00 ` Richard Irvine
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