From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: discriminant questions
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:05:45 -0500
Date: 2011-09-21T22:05:45-05:00 [thread overview]
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message
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> P.S. I also see little or no point in using "accessors". Primitive
> operations Set and Get would be as good/bad. They are also cleaner, much
> more efficient and, what is far more important, they are *primitive*.
> Accossor is a new type which means *contravariance*. The stuff is not
> composable under inheritance.
I agree with all of this except the part about "much more efficient". Since
such routines require copying the entire element, they cannot be more
efficient than a construct that does not require such copying. Get/Set
(really Element/Replace_Element) are good, so long as copying the element is
cheap or you only need to modify the entire element.
But if you have a large element where only a small part will be modified,
Set simply isn't practical. All you can do is introduce an explicit access
type, which is *exactly* what you don't want (because it forces the client
to do all of the memory management).
You could of course just return a reference to the element in place instead,
but that sacrifies all safety -- that might be OK in the C++ library, but it
is unacceptable in Ada.
Randy.
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2011-09-17 16:30 discriminant questions ytomino
2011-09-17 17:19 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-17 17:46 ` ytomino
2011-09-17 19:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-17 22:55 ` ytomino
2011-09-18 8:50 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-18 10:54 ` ytomino
2011-09-18 11:35 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-18 12:41 ` ytomino
2011-09-18 13:17 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-18 16:22 ` ytomino
2011-09-18 16:32 ` ytomino
2011-09-18 18:15 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-18 23:44 ` ytomino
2011-09-19 7:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-18 14:43 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-18 16:46 ` Robert A Duff
2011-09-18 18:01 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-18 19:20 ` Maciej Sobczak
2011-09-19 7:39 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-19 20:00 ` Maciej Sobczak
2011-09-20 7:33 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-20 15:45 ` Maciej Sobczak
2011-09-20 16:48 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-20 20:19 ` Maciej Sobczak
2011-09-21 7:48 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-21 20:51 ` Maciej Sobczak
2011-09-22 8:07 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-22 20:57 ` Maciej Sobczak
2011-09-23 7:59 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-23 10:57 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-09-23 22:30 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-09-23 22:50 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-09-24 6:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-26 22:48 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-09-27 8:10 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-27 10:18 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-09-27 12:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-27 15:11 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-09-27 15:38 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-27 18:06 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-09-27 19:06 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-29 0:01 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-09-29 8:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-30 1:24 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-09-30 8:10 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-30 10:07 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-09-30 12:38 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-30 17:40 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-09-30 18:55 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-23 9:23 ` Stephen Leake
2011-09-23 9:48 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-23 22:42 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-09-24 6:56 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-26 22:43 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-09-24 10:47 ` Stephen Leake
2011-09-24 12:54 ` Simon Wright
2011-09-24 14:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-24 16:21 ` Simon Wright
2011-09-24 16:43 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-22 2:52 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-09-22 8:11 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-20 0:01 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-09-20 7:38 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-20 11:11 ` AdaMagica
2011-09-20 12:09 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-20 12:31 ` AdaMagica
2011-09-20 12:57 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-20 23:28 ` ytomino
2011-09-21 5:03 ` AdaMagica
2011-09-21 8:08 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-21 10:03 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-09-21 10:29 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-22 3:21 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-09-22 3:05 ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2011-09-19 23:35 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-09-20 21:39 ` ytomino
2011-09-22 3:32 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-09-18 16:32 ` ytomino
2011-09-19 14:46 ` ytomino
2011-09-19 15:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-19 17:49 ` ytomino
2011-09-20 7:29 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-09-20 19:50 ` ytomino
2011-09-20 8:08 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-20 18:47 ` ytomino
2011-09-21 8:16 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-21 9:55 ` ytomino
2011-09-22 3:26 ` Randy Brukardt
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