From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Parameterised 'Image Attributes
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2023 09:38:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uc1olt$2anmi$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uc0sfl$23foj$1@dont-email.me>
On 2023-08-22 01:37, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message
> news:ubsmak$1a024$1@dont-email.me...
> ...
>> Of course it must be generic, which kills all fun.
>
> As noted in my other message, resurrecting the Ada 95 idea allowing
> class-wide types for elementary types would eliminate (or at least greatly
> reduce) this problem.
Yes, but that would be a huge change.
> I think that would be a more productive way to address
> this problem than hacking around with 'Image some more. (We've already
> proven that it is not a good way to define anything user-defined, thus the
> rather complex way to define such 'Image attributes.)
One does not exclude another. If you allowed classes then there would be
no reason not to have attributes official primitive operations. E.g. an
"imaginable" interface would provide "'Image" and the standard Integer
would inherit to "imaginable"...
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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-18 7:18 Parameterised 'Image Attributes Rod Kay
2023-08-18 8:25 ` Luke A. Guest
2023-08-19 9:14 ` J-P. Rosen
2023-08-19 10:03 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2023-08-19 11:45 ` Luke A. Guest
2023-08-19 11:56 ` J-P. Rosen
2023-08-19 13:01 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2023-08-19 15:27 ` Jeffrey R.Carter
2023-08-20 7:53 ` G.B.
2023-08-20 9:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2023-08-21 23:11 ` Randy Brukardt
2023-08-21 23:37 ` Randy Brukardt
2023-08-22 7:38 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2023-08-19 16:49 ` moi
2023-08-20 7:25 ` Randy Brukardt
2023-08-20 9:43 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2023-08-21 23:34 ` Randy Brukardt
2023-08-22 8:13 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2023-08-23 10:20 ` Stephen Davies
2023-08-23 16:16 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2023-08-24 19:59 ` Stephen Davies
2023-08-25 7:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2023-08-25 9:04 ` Stephen Davies
2023-08-25 13:02 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2023-08-28 9:18 ` Stephen Davies
2023-08-28 10:58 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2023-08-28 15:42 ` Stephen Davies
2023-08-28 16:09 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2023-08-28 17:33 ` G.B.
2023-08-28 19:08 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2023-08-28 17:58 ` Niklas Holsti
2023-08-28 19:08 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2023-09-07 1:04 ` Randy Brukardt
2023-09-07 9:01 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2023-08-18 18:53 ` Keith Thompson
2023-09-23 10:00 ` Rod Kay
2023-09-26 5:47 ` Vadim Godunko
2023-09-26 10:15 ` Rod Kay
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