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From: Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru>
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Subject: Re: Intermixing two tagged types
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 19:11:02 +0300
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Adam Beneschan wrote:

> On Thursday, August 14, 2014 4:57:18 AM UTC-7, Victor Porton wrote:
> 
>> Tagged types a little decrease efficiency, but I use tagged types anyway
>> (primarily for controlled finalization).
> 
> I haven't been following this discussion carefully enough.  So I have no
> idea whether the following suggestion is appropriate.  However ...
> 
> If you have an untagged record, and it has a component that is a (tagged)
> controlled type, you'll still get finalization, but using the untagged
> record as a parameter won't cause any problems with the dispatching rules.
> 
> Again, I don't know whether this is helpful.  I just thought I'd throw it
> out there in case it is.

Thank you for your suggestion. However I already know this.

But working this way would be a wrong way. In the meaning of things the 
entire record is controlled, not its part. So controlling a part would be a 
hack, not a good way to do programming.

-- 
Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org