From: Brian Gough <bjg@gnu.org>
To: Gerard Jungman <jungman@lanl.gov>
Cc: gsl-discuss@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: containers tentative design summary
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:54:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3zl786f9c.wl%bjg@network-theory.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1256848906.19313.25.camel@manticore.lanl.gov>
At Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:41:46 -0600,
Gerard Jungman wrote:
> You will never succeed in making an interface "safe" in
> this sense. However, you _can_ make an interface intuitive
> and safe to use in a normal manner. I don't think you
> can ask any more of C.
I don't think this interface is safe to use in a normal manner it it
requires an explicit cast to pass a non-const object to a function
accepting the const version. Any error in the argument of an explicit
cast is undetectable. We should not require the use of explicit casts
for common operations, it would endorse a bad practice.
--
Brian Gough
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-30 16:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 [this message]
2009-10-05 23:04 ` some general questions Gerard Jungman
2009-10-06 16:21 ` Brian Gough
2009-10-06 20:32 ` Gerard Jungman
2009-10-10 14:45 ` Tuomo Keskitalo
2009-10-24 11:16 ` Brian Gough
2009-10-14 20:00 ` Brian Gough
2009-10-15 18:39 ` Tuomo Keskitalo
2009-11-03 19:44 containers tentative design summary Gerard Jungman
2009-11-09 20:41 ` Brian Gough
2009-11-09 23:06 ` Gerard Jungman
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
2009-11-20 9:37 Justin Lenzo
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