Oct. 31, 2003
5:36 a.m.
"Mark Hammond" <mhammond@skippinet.com.au> writes:
That would work, be less intrusive, and allow all existing code to work unchanged. My only concern is that it does not go anywhere towards fixing the buffer interface itself.
I think that is a different issue entirely. While it may be interesting and important, can we at least try to keep them separate? Cheers, mwh -- This is the fixed point problem again; since all some implementors do is implement the compiler and libraries for compiler writing, the language becomes good at writing compilers and not much else! -- Brian Rogoff, comp.lang.functional