From: Gianni Mariani <gmariani@chaincast.com>
To: Robert Dewar <dewar@gnat.com>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: c++ "with" keyword
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2003 20:58:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E174A16.6070605@chaincast.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030104190947.9593BF2DB5@nile.gnat.com>
Robert Dewar wrote:
>>I favour code maintenance. I don't like fixing bugs only to introduce a
>>whole bunch of new ones that are hard to find. This is probably my
>>largest concern when it comes to writing code.
>>
>>
>
>
>But once again, if you fix a bug by introducing a new name, then you never
>introduce a new "bug", simply instances of illegalities that are trivially
>fixable (you can even write a trivial tool to fix them if you really find
>it that hard). So they are not "hard to find", since they generate clear
>diagnostics, and they are not "hard to fix".
>
>
I argue that it is not trivially fixable. In the case of a third party
library, it is virtually impossible to guarentee that introducing a new
member will not break any clients of the library.
This is why I like "orthogonality" of code - the act of making a change
in one facet does not introduce changes in another. The "with" concept
breaks orthogonality in arbitrary ways.
Forthwith remove with prejudice. (sorry)
G
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2003-01-04 19:13 Robert Dewar
2003-01-04 20:58 ` Gianni Mariani [this message]
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2003-01-06 13:07 Robert Dewar
2003-01-05 18:41 Robert Dewar
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2003-01-05 13:39 ` Toon Moene
2003-01-05 12:56 Robert Dewar
2003-01-06 12:18 ` Andrew Haley
2003-01-05 12:56 Robert Dewar
2003-01-05 18:22 ` Joseph S. Myers
2003-01-05 12:44 Robert Dewar
2003-01-05 3:16 Robert Dewar
2003-01-05 0:38 Robert Dewar
2003-01-05 0:29 Robert Dewar
2003-01-05 0:37 ` Kevin Handy
2003-01-04 23:27 Robert Dewar
2003-01-04 23:36 ` Lynn Winebarger
2003-01-05 2:55 ` Gianni Mariani
2003-01-04 22:13 Robert Dewar
2003-01-04 20:59 Robert Dewar
2003-01-04 22:36 ` Gianni Mariani
2003-01-04 20:09 Robert Dewar
2003-01-04 19:36 Robert Dewar
2003-01-04 19:59 ` Tolga Dalman
2003-01-04 18:11 Robert Dewar
2003-01-04 18:47 ` Gianni Mariani
2003-01-04 17:52 Robert Dewar
2003-01-04 17:59 ` Gianni Mariani
2003-01-04 17:06 Robert Dewar
2003-01-04 17:22 ` Daniel Berlin
2003-01-05 11:33 ` Andrew Haley
2003-01-05 11:36 ` Toon Moene
2003-01-04 14:29 Robert Dewar
2003-01-04 15:00 ` Momchil Velikov
2003-01-04 15:24 ` Andrew Haley
2003-01-04 16:25 ` Neil Booth
2003-01-04 17:35 ` Gianni Mariani
2003-01-04 17:59 ` Tolga Dalman
2003-01-04 18:36 ` Gianni Mariani
2003-01-04 18:54 ` Tolga Dalman
2003-01-04 23:32 ` Kevin Handy
2002-12-29 8:32 Norman Jonas
2002-12-29 12:46 ` Russ Allbery
2002-12-29 6:49 Erik Schnetter
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