From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: Rational for not making cursor tagged in Containers
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:54:06 -0400
Date: 2007-04-20T15:54:06-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wcck5w6zush.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: uejme7ub7.fsf@STRIPCAPStelus.net
Ray Blaak <rAYblaaK@STRIPCAPStelus.net> writes:
> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
>> On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:05:28 GMT, Ray Blaak wrote:
>>
>> >> X := Y; -- Who owns assignment? 1 or X?
Was this supposed to say "Y or X"? Or is 1 presumed to be the value of Y?
I think I'm missing Dmitry's point here, unless it was to say that
for symmetric operations, it's hard to say which type it "belongs" to.
>> > X, of course.
>>
>> So, it should dispatch on X, right? Welcome back to C++!
>
> No sweat. That is not the most serious of C++'s pitfalls.
>
> In practice though, I use C#/Java for which the "language" owns assignment,
> and no one else. Of course simple assignment does not copy fields, so explicit
> clone/copy methods need to be used instead, which more clearly indicates
> ownership/dispatching rules, etc.
Yeah. In this area, Java is sort of like the situation in Ada if all
composite types were required to be limited. You can use ":=" on access
types and integer types...
- Bob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-20 19:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-19 16:05 Rational for not making cursor tagged in Containers Anh Vo
2007-04-19 18:25 ` Robert A Duff
2007-04-19 19:28 ` Anh Vo
2007-04-19 20:45 ` Robert A Duff
2007-04-19 21:43 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-04-19 23:59 ` Ray Blaak
2007-04-20 7:54 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-04-20 10:56 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-04-20 10:39 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-04-20 14:42 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-04-20 14:45 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-04-20 15:13 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-04-20 19:37 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-04-20 19:32 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-04-20 20:59 ` Robert A Duff
2007-04-20 22:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-04-23 17:38 ` Adam Beneschan
2007-04-23 19:18 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-04-24 0:15 ` Adam Beneschan
2007-04-24 10:43 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-04-24 16:27 ` Adam Beneschan
2007-04-24 20:19 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-04-26 0:58 ` Adam Beneschan
2007-04-26 7:50 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-04-26 8:09 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-04-27 8:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-04-27 11:37 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-04-28 17:35 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-04-29 2:31 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-04-29 8:45 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-04-27 20:44 ` Robert A Duff
2007-04-26 8:33 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-04-26 11:09 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-04-20 19:55 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-04-22 9:54 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-04-22 11:19 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-04-20 20:44 ` Robert A Duff
2007-04-21 5:38 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-04-22 1:14 ` Robert A Duff
2007-04-22 4:08 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-04-20 20:11 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-04-20 21:28 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-04-21 5:33 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-04-21 9:39 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-04-22 4:28 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-04-22 8:38 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-04-23 23:26 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-04-24 10:43 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-04-24 8:58 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-04-24 12:21 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-04-21 4:48 ` unifying arrays and records (was Re: Rational for not making cursor tagged in Containers) Ray Blaak
2007-04-20 17:05 ` Rational for not making cursor tagged in Containers Ray Blaak
2007-04-20 18:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-04-20 18:52 ` Ray Blaak
2007-04-20 19:54 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
2007-04-20 1:18 ` Anh Vo
2007-04-20 7:53 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-04-20 9:26 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-04-20 10:15 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-04-20 11:59 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2007-04-20 13:23 ` Anh Vo
2007-04-20 16:02 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2007-04-21 2:53 ` Anh Vo
2007-04-20 3:03 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-04-20 2:53 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-04-20 16:08 ` Anh Vo
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