Re: Parameterless generic instance in place of opaque type instance

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Sun, 28 Jul 2013 09:30:18 +0200, J-P. Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr> a écrit:

> Le 28/07/2013 07:49, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) a écrit :
>> For these types, a parameterless generic instance may be enough. I hope
>> most compilers are clever enough to not duplicate machine code for each
>> of these instances, and just duplicate their data (valid or invalid
>> assumption?).
> This is a basic design pattern of HOOD (and the main one in early
> versions). Since HOOD is based on abstract state machines, it
> represented each machine with a package, and the package was made
> generic if you wanted several identical ASM.

Thanks for the notice Jean‑Pierre! (also reminds me I should have a deep  
and serious look a future day, at that PDF I have about HOOD)

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