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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,93ab7fc5388e249 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-12-07 08:19:55 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!hub1.nntpserver.com!news-out.spamkiller.net!propagator-la!news-in-la.newsfeeds.com!news-in.superfeed.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <3C0E1FA1.45A38A75@brighton.ac.uk> <%7sP7.49836$xS6.82296@www.newsranger.com> Subject: Re: Iterator approach (was: List container strawman 1.3) Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 11:19:39 EST Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 16:19:39 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:17575 Date: 2001-12-07T16:19:39+00:00 List-Id: In article , Mark Lundquist says... > >OK, so I shouldn't have said it was safe under "any" circumstance permitted >by the language... Dynamic deallocation isn't exactly some bizzare rarely-used feature. >I guess my view is that using Unchecked_Deallocation is like signing a >waiver that says "I accept full responsibility for whatever happens". .. to that object, yes. The situation we are talking about is that nasty things happen to *other* objects as well, because we have purposely designed things in a way that allows that. If we want to take the attitude that it is the user's responsibility to keep iterators and lists consistent, than we can take that attitude. If instead we want to take the attitude that its the package's responsibility then we can take that attitude. I think trying to take some middle ground is dangerous. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.