From: Roger Peppe rog@ohm.york.ac.uk
Subject: limbo
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 16:39:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19960717153935.PsCvk3OFtxO_3gkie6hgQZmybRQ-UnnVCa06-xOPmTo@z> (raw)
after browsing the limbo documents, i've got a few questions.
i hope nobody objects to these being raised on the 9fans list.
is there a security reason why limbo doesn't support any sort of
polymorphism at all, even unions ?
it seems slightly surprising, as Alef seemed to provide quite a
nice form of polymorphism which looked as if it might adapt quite
well to a language such as limbo; it could also provide a nice
mechanism for dealing with variable argument lists.
also, what's the reason for '.' binding tighter than '->' ?
m->(Module->Type).function() seems rather contrived; the second
reference to the Module type is surely unnecessary because Type
has always got to be declared at the top level within m, so
m->Type.function() is unambiguous (and seems more intuitive, to me
at least)
flames to me only, not to the list, please.
cheers,
rog.
next reply other threads:[~1996-07-17 15:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-07-17 15:39 Roger [this message]
1996-07-17 23:29 limbo Shon
1996-07-17 23:56 limbo philw
1996-07-18 3:28 limbo Rogers
1996-07-18 10:38 limbo Roger
1996-07-18 12:09 limbo Howard
1996-07-19 20:11 limbo Balaji
1996-07-19 20:43 limbo philw
1996-07-23 14:34 limbo Alexandre
1996-08-02 15:32 limbo ^*_*^
1996-08-02 15:32 limbo ^*_*^
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