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Richard Maine  
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 More options Apr 9 2007, 11:23 am
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From: nos...@see.signature (Richard Maine)
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 08:23:38 -0700
Local: Mon, Apr 9 2007 11:23 am
Subject: Re: Transfer and variables that don't use all their storage space.
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James Giles <jamesgi...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> Richard Maine wrote:
> ...
> > And no, I don't think the authors of the standard consciously thought
> > about such things. Rather the opposite, I think such matters were
> > completely overlooked in writing the simplistic words that Brooks
> > cited.

> The point I was making was that I believe the committee deliberately
> overlooked such issues.  The purpose of TRANSFER was to provide
> a means of doing things that the language otherwise didn't permit.
> The fact that such activities could be abused was the programmer's
> responsibility.

We appear to be miscommunicating. I agree that transfer is to provide a
means of doing such things. That is not my point. Have you reread the
sentence from the standard that Brooks cited? That sentence specifically
says what some cases give as a result, and it says it in a fashion that
is not system dependent. You don't need that sentence to provide
system-dependent capability; quite the opposite - that sentence
disallows system dependence.

It is that sentence and only that sentence that I am arguing about. I
don't see that your argument has anything to do with that sentence. If
you do, then I guess we are just going to have to disagree. I continue
to think that the sentence reflects an inadvertant oversight.

--
Richard Maine                    | Good judgement comes from experience;
email: last name at domain . net | experience comes from bad judgement.
domain: summertriangle           |  -- Mark Twain


 
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