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From: Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru>
Subject: Why stack can hold indefinite objects but records cannot?
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 22:31:01 +0200
Date: 2017-11-28T22:31:01+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ovkh24$1bh5$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)

Why is it OK to create an indefinite object as a local variable ("on stack") 
but not OK to put an indefinite object into a record?

How records are less powerful than the stack?

By the way, how indefinite local variables can be implemented? (just 
curious)

Moreover, wouldn't it to be a good idea to allow indefinite objects in 
records (thus making the record itself indefinite, even if it has no 
discriminants)? I realize that then it would be difficult to track which 
records are definite and which indefinite. But what's about the idea?

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

             reply	other threads:[~2017-11-28 20:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-28 20:31 Victor Porton [this message]
2017-11-28 20:46 ` Why stack can hold indefinite objects but records cannot? Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-11-28 21:31   ` Victor Porton
2017-11-28 21:50     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-11-28 22:51 ` Randy Brukardt
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