From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@planete.net>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] no const?
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 16:55:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01be01c01f24$efa92fa0$89c584c3@cybercable.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dir*8DiCo@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>
From: "Theo Honohan" <theoh@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
> >hope? i don't see the point of adding a buncha extra code to the
> >compiler in the 'hope' that things will be better.
>
> You've got to be trolling, now. By "the best (protection) that one
> could hope for", DAG obviously means "the best (protection) that is
> obtainable".
if that's what he meant he should have used a more precise construction.
hope and code just don't mix. like pointer and integer; it might work
most of the time [hope], but it's wrong.
btw: DAG is pretty funny in oz slang :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-09-15 14:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-09-13 14:00 David L Rubin
2000-09-13 14:17 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-09-13 16:42 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-09-13 17:03 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-09-13 17:11 ` Steve Kilbane
2000-09-13 19:33 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-09-14 8:13 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-09-14 12:34 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-09-15 8:47 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-09-15 11:34 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-09-15 13:07 ` Theo Honohan
2000-09-15 14:55 ` Boyd Roberts [this message]
2000-09-16 8:51 ` Matt Lawless
2000-09-18 10:47 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-09-15 20:46 ` Steve Kilbane
2000-09-14 19:41 ` Steve Kilbane
2000-09-18 10:47 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-09-13 14:22 Russ Cox
2000-09-13 14:30 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-09-13 14:29 miller
2000-09-13 14:39 forsyth
2000-09-13 16:44 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-09-13 18:06 Russ Cox
2000-09-14 8:13 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
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