From: Gerard Jungman <jungman@lanl.gov>
To: gsl-discuss@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: containers tentative design summary
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:06:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1257808063.11663.3.camel@manticore.lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3639nemv3.wl%bjg@network-theory.co.uk>
On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 14:42 +0000, Brian Gough wrote:
>
> Ok, I have read the paper now. I do think the practice of casting
> described there is rather dated. When people had no viable
> alternative to C, they had to resort to such tricks. It is not
> something that should be encouraged today -- programs should either be
> written safely, following the rules of type-checking in C, or be
> written in another language.
How does this comment help us in designing a C library?
> Our approach is actually described in the paper under the "first
> member" section, in the &(cp.p) example -- although they don't point
> out that it's the only one that doesn't require a cast and can be
> checked by the compiler, unlike all the others.
How does this solve the const-ness problem?
--
G. Jungman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-09 23:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-03 19:44 Gerard Jungman
2009-11-09 20:41 ` Brian Gough
2009-11-09 23:06 ` Gerard Jungman [this message]
2009-11-14 15:25 ` Brian Gough
2009-11-15 9:13 ` Tuomo Keskitalo
2009-11-15 16:44 ` Jonathan Underwood
2009-11-15 18:41 ` Robert G. Brown
2009-11-16 11:56 ` Brian Gough
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2009-11-20 9:37 Justin Lenzo
2009-10-05 10:12 Gerard Jungman
2009-10-05 14:50 ` James Bergstra
2009-10-05 23:00 ` Gerard Jungman
2009-10-05 23:45 ` James Bergstra
2009-10-06 19:59 ` Gerard Jungman
[not found] ` <645d17210910060537s762d6323pfd2bec8590ad28e9@mail.gmail.com>
2009-10-06 20:02 ` Gerard Jungman
2009-10-23 21:28 ` Brian Gough
2009-10-27 23:06 ` Gerard Jungman
[not found] ` <7f1eaee30910271628h70785125m68e47c7a7b5c25b7@mail.gmail.com>
2009-10-27 23:49 ` Gerard Jungman
2009-10-29 18:06 ` Brian Gough
2009-10-29 20:41 ` Gerard Jungman
2009-10-29 21:40 ` James Bergstra
2009-10-30 16:54 ` Brian Gough
2009-10-30 16:54 ` Brian Gough
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