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From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Subject: Re: General circular buffer example not tied to any specific type
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2020 10:58:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <rdup49$sei$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lypn99cbbl.fsf@pushface.org>

On 7/6/20 10:11 AM, Simon Wright wrote:
> 
> Any *definite* type. I don't remember whether that would suit the
> original requirement in this thread.

I don't think "requirement" applies. "Circular buffer of untyped values" is at 
best a design decision. Trying to bypass the type system is usually an 
indication of a design problem, in my experience.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"In the frozen land of Nador they were forced to
eat Robin's minstrels, and there was much rejoicing."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-06  8:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-04 17:00 General circular buffer example not tied to any specific type Daniel
2020-07-04 17:25 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-07-05  9:37   ` Simon Wright
2020-07-05  9:52     ` Simon Wright
2020-07-05 13:25       ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2020-07-05 15:36         ` Simon Wright
2020-07-05 18:46           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-07-05 19:51             ` Simon Wright
2020-07-06  8:11         ` Simon Wright
2020-07-06  8:58           ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2020-07-06 10:34             ` Simon Wright
2020-07-06 11:07               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-09-03 10:31 ` riya patel
2020-09-24  4:10 ` nimaopatel121
2020-09-24  4:39   ` J-P. Rosen
2020-09-25 14:32 ` Simon Wright
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