From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: disjoint ranges ?
Date: 2000/10/16
Date: 2000-10-16T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wcc4s2c91it.fsf@world.std.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 39E75AE3.90F858CE@ix.netcom.com
Lao Xiao Hai <laoxhai@ix.netcom.com> writes:
> The problem of disjoint ranges came up for me many years ago on a
> different project. I even suggested this as a capability for Ada 9X,
> but my suggestion either fell through the cracks or I submitted it
> incorrectly.
I don't think it fell through the cracks, and you probably submitted it
correctly. It was simply judged to be too much added complexity for too
little gain. That doesn't mean it's a dumb idea -- it just means that
the trade-off was not worth it.
- Bob
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-10-12 0:00 disjoint ranges ? Philippe Torres
2000-10-12 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
2000-10-12 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
2000-10-12 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
2000-10-13 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
2000-10-13 0:34 ` Jeff Carter
2000-10-13 0:00 ` Philippe Torres
2000-10-14 3:12 ` Robert Dewar
2000-10-16 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-10-16 0:00 ` Lao Xiao Hai
2000-10-17 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-10-17 0:00 ` Lao Xiao Hai
2000-10-18 0:00 ` dmitry6243
2000-10-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-10-18 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-10-19 3:08 ` Overloading "in" (was: disjoint ranges ?) Jeff Carter
2000-10-19 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
2000-10-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-10-21 0:00 ` Jeff Carter
2000-10-16 0:00 ` disjoint ranges ? Robert Dewar
2000-10-13 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
2000-10-14 3:14 ` Robert Dewar
2000-10-13 0:00 ` Philippe Torres
2000-10-13 0:00 ` Lao Xiao Hai
2000-10-14 3:17 ` Robert Dewar
2000-10-16 0:00 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
2000-10-13 0:00 ` wayne lydecker
2000-10-13 0:00 ` wayne lydecker
2000-10-13 0:00 ` Lao Xiao Hai
2000-10-23 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-10-24 0:00 ` dmitry6243
2000-10-24 0:00 ` Andrew Cooke
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