From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: access types
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2007 20:12:23 -0400
Date: 2007-07-01T20:12:23-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wccejjr64uw.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1ms47w0p7qd6m$.780b4ot5v1q1.dlg@40tude.net
"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
> On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 10:57:17 -0400, Robert A Duff wrote:
>
>> Access-to-classwide should normally use "all".
>> In fact, you won't go too far wrong if you always say "all"
>> for all named access-to-variable types.
>
> I appreciate storage pools too much to agree with that. There are so many
> interesting things we can do with pools, multiple inheritance for example!
> (:-))
OK, I'll bite. ;-)
How do you do multiple inheritance with pools?
Anyway, "all" does not stop you from using pools.
> I could never understand why explicit conversion is not allowed for
> pointers from the same pool.
Well, that might make sense, but we never thought of that.
"Pool specific" is somewhat of a misnomer. It really just
means "Ada 83-style access type".
- Bob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-02 0:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-01 0:39 access types Brian May
2007-07-01 1:54 ` Robert A Duff
2007-07-01 7:52 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-07-01 14:57 ` Robert A Duff
2007-07-01 19:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-07-02 0:12 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
2007-07-02 8:06 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-07-02 15:37 ` Adam Beneschan
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1999-07-15 0:00 Access Types Ronald Ayoub
1999-07-21 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-07-22 0:00 ` Steve Folly
1999-07-23 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-05-27 0:00 Access types jsanchor
1998-05-28 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-05-29 0:00 ` jsanchor
1998-05-30 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
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