From: "rob pike, esq." <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] useful language extension, or no?
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 12:50:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f131d5fe529220c83beafeab2aca42a8@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
> What about the promotion of a structure from itself
> to one of its members in a function call simply because
> it makes locking a structure easier? Surely passing in
> a pointer to a function and having the in-func pointer completely
> different violates some standard of programming languages.
It's called inheritance.
> Why was it worthwhile to change the language in this respect,
> for the idiom of "always having to make sure the lock is the
> first item in the structure for pointer coersion is a pain?"
Yes.
-rob
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Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-16 16:50 rob pike, esq. [this message]
2002-07-16 15:59 ` Sam
2002-07-16 17:04 ` Howard Trickey
2002-07-16 16:20 ` Sam
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2002-07-20 5:59 forsyth
2002-07-19 18:35 forsyth
2002-07-19 18:33 David Gordon Hogan
2002-07-19 18:22 David Gordon Hogan
2002-07-19 18:36 ` Digby Tarvin
2002-07-19 15:45 forsyth
2002-07-19 18:19 ` Digby Tarvin
2002-07-19 6:48 forsyth
2002-07-19 0:52 David Gordon Hogan
2002-07-19 12:53 ` Digby Tarvin
2002-07-19 15:41 ` Mike Haertel
2002-07-19 18:09 ` Digby Tarvin
2002-07-19 18:38 ` Scott Schwartz
2002-07-19 19:07 ` Digby Tarvin
2002-07-29 16:01 ` Ralph Corderoy
2002-07-18 19:24 David Gordon Hogan
2002-07-19 4:22 ` Lucio De Re
2002-07-18 15:02 forsyth
2002-07-18 23:57 ` arisawa
2002-07-29 15:59 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-07-18 12:54 Richard Miller
2002-07-17 13:36 rob pike, esq.
2002-07-16 17:31 presotto
2002-07-17 8:58 ` William Josephson
2002-07-17 8:58 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-07-16 17:01 forsyth
2002-07-17 8:59 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-07-16 16:08 rob pike, esq.
2002-07-16 15:31 ` Sam
2002-07-16 15:53 rob pike, esq.
2002-07-16 15:05 ` Sam
2002-07-16 21:29 ` Steve Kilbane
2002-07-16 14:12 Sam
2002-07-16 16:30 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-07-17 12:49 ` Ian Broster
2002-07-17 12:12 ` Sam
2002-07-17 13:33 ` Lucio De Re
2002-07-17 16:12 ` Fariborz (Skip) Tavakkolian
2002-07-17 22:21 ` arisawa
2002-07-17 22:28 ` Ronald G Minnich
2002-07-18 9:51 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-07-18 10:19 ` Lucio De Re
2002-07-18 10:28 ` Lucio De Re
2002-07-18 14:50 ` Mike Haertel
2002-07-18 14:56 ` Lucio De Re
2002-07-19 5:23 ` arisawa
2002-07-18 14:21 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-07-18 14:55 ` Lucio De Re
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