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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Legit Warnings or not
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 18:32:55 -0500
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message 
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> On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:10:09 -0400, Robert A Duff wrote:
>
>> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
>>
>>> I.e. it leaks.
>>
>> Right.  Somebody famous said "all abstractions leak".
>
> That is why I would prefer to move this stuff out of the language. A full
> view of a type must tell what is going on.

And that's the fundamental disagreement. I much prefer the technique the Ada 
uses: the compiler can do anything it wants, but the user can request a 
specific representation when that is necessary. (Which is a fairly rare 
occurrence). I want languages to get higher-level -- without sacrificing 
performance -- not lower level.

                                 Randy.