From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,a41c4a2c795dbe34 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!feeder.news-service.com!94.75.214.39.MISMATCH!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Will "renames" increase program size? Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:26:29 +0200 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <46294109-f07d-49c0-8e81-65a369a05ced@z15g2000prn.googlegroups.com> <4c40218a-52ae-41ff-9c74-287d9f90625c@v12g2000vby.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: C6YugxKrhgMFJYeUelqZVQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/11.11 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19848 Date: 2011-06-15T13:26:29+02:00 List-Id: Le Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:11:16 +0200, AdaMagica = a =C3=A9crit: > Additionally to Randy's answer: IIRC, renaming a primitive operation > adds an entry to the dispatch table, and the original and the renamed > operation may be overridden with different operations upon derivation.= Oh, I was not aware of that. Thanks for the important point! -- = =E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [Ep= igrams on = Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale University] =E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.= =E2=80=9D [Idem] =E2=80=9Cc++; /* this makes c bigger but returns the old value */=E2=80=9D= [Anonymous]