Re: DogCows or Polymorphism in the Hurd

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

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