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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: cross linking packages
Date: 29 Nov 1994 17:07:21 -0500
Date: 1994-11-29T17:07:21-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3bg8mp$i0g@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CzzAMz.K9F@inter.NL.net

"The GNAT compiler stumbles into a circular ..."

How about instead

"The GNAT compiler correctly diagnoses an illegal circular dependency"

This is definitely wrong, you have to put both types in the same
package if they have this sort of mutual dependence. 

(and now we can rerun the long dialog on mutually recursive types :-)




  parent reply	other threads:[~1994-11-29 22:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1994-11-28 12:56 cross linking packages Rene Burema
1994-11-29 18:28 ` Norman H. Cohen
1994-11-29 22:07 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1994-11-30 16:33   ` David Weller
1994-12-01 13:44     ` Robert I. Eachus
1994-11-30 23:03   ` Matt Kennel
1994-12-02 14:30     ` Norman H. Cohen
1994-12-05 20:57     ` Elaboration order [was: cross linking packages] John Volan
1994-12-06 16:11       ` Robert Dewar
1994-12-05 13:30 ` cross linking packages John Volan
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1994-12-06 16:34 Bob Wells #402
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