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From: "J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>
Subject: Re: container cursor type cannot be tagged
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 09:59:03 +0200
Date: 2014-08-29T09:59:03+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ltpbs4$h4i$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c8utnmednhss.tg5692sifke0$.dlg@40tude.net>

Le 29/08/2014 09:28, Dmitry A. Kazakov a écrit :
> That is another of multiple reasons why. Cursor tend to become a full class
> with descendants and primitive operations which ends up in multiple
> dispatch, for whatever reason not available. An index almost always can be
> a "final" type which makes everything a lot easier.

Could you elaborate on what (in your view) is the difference between a
cursor and an index?

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-29  7:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-28 19:21 container cursor type cannot be tagged Stephen Leake
2014-08-28 20:25 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-08-29  7:28   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-08-29  7:59     ` J-P. Rosen [this message]
2014-08-29  8:46       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-08-29 23:08     ` Randy Brukardt
2014-08-29 14:50   ` Stephen Leake
2014-08-29 23:00     ` Randy Brukardt
2014-08-30 15:16       ` Stephen Leake
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