From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Subject: Re: Design problem: generic package vs tagged subtype
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:28:36 +0100
Date: 2010-07-01T20:28:36+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2k4pfxaqj.fsf@pushface.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: i0in2n$ghs$1@tornado.tornevall.net
"Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org> writes:
> I don't really care which of these I write. But I'd much rather READ
>
> Send (Message => ...);
>
> than
>
> Send (M => ...); -- Meaningless
Quite often (IMO) there's no need to use named association *for the
first parameter* in a case like this.
Send ("hello world", To => Server);
for example.
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-30 17:52 Design problem: generic package vs tagged subtype Marek Janukowicz
2010-06-30 19:23 ` Simon Wright
2010-06-30 22:33 ` Marek Janukowicz
2010-07-01 4:13 ` naming, was " tmoran
2010-07-01 9:49 ` J-P. Rosen
2010-07-01 15:48 ` Marcelo Coraça de Freitas
2010-07-01 5:57 ` Simon Wright
2010-07-01 18:30 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2010-07-01 19:28 ` Simon Wright [this message]
2010-07-01 19:59 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2010-07-01 21:14 ` Per Sandberg
2010-07-02 9:25 ` Stephen Leake
2010-07-02 10:50 ` Georg Bauhaus
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