From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Tagged Types and Generics
Date: 1997/04/25
Date: 1997-04-25T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.862004577@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3.0.32.19970421225247.007129f4@mail.4dcomm.com
Bob Leif says
<<Background: Recently, Tom Moran, Randy Brukard and I wrote a paper. "Ada
95, The Language Speaks for Itself". This paper will appear in the May
Object Magazine. In this paper we modeled money as a decimal type and did
inheritance directly via a generic. I had suggested modeling money as a
tagged type. My co-authors very wisely vetoed that approach. After the>>
I can't see any reason for wanting to model money as a tagged type -- you
lose literals, and you lose a lot of other useful semantics of decimal
types, and you gain nothing that I can see.
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-04-21 0:00 Tagged Types and Generics Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
1997-04-24 0:00 ` Jeff Carter
1997-04-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1997-04-26 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-04-26 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-04-27 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1997-04-28 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-04-28 0:00 ` Tom Moran
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1997-04-26 0:00 Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
1997-04-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-02 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
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