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Re: DogCows or Polymorphism in the Hurd
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Jonathan S. Shapiro |
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Re: DogCows or Polymorphism in the Hurd |
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Mon, 06 Feb 2006 11:55:31 -0500 |
Damn. I *hate* mailing lists that don't set reply-to.
On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 14:03 +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> IOW, the `st_mode' field can be viewed as a poor man's type system. ;-)
Yes, but it isn't "poor". It's called dynamic typing, or sometimes
run-time typing.
The problem with DogCow interfaces is that they fail to have a
well-defined run-time type. This is what makes processing them so
ambiguous.
shap
- Re: Perils of Config Files (was DogCows or Polymorphism in the Hurd), (continued)
- Re: Perils of Config Files (was DogCows or Polymorphism in the Hurd), Marcus Brinkmann, 2006/02/09
- Re: Perils of Config Files (was DogCows or Polymorphism in the Hurd), Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2006/02/09
- Re: Perils of Config Files (was DogCows or Polymorphism in the Hurd), Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2006/02/09
- Re: DogCows or Polymorphism in the Hurd, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2006/02/07
- Re: DogCows or Polymorphism in the Hurd, Marcus Brinkmann, 2006/02/07
Re: DogCows or Polymorphism in the Hurd, Ludovic Courtès, 2006/02/06
Re: DogCows or Polymorphism in the Hurd, Patrick Negre, 2006/02/06