🚀 go-pugleaf

In <Bxw0H0.6EF@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, hrubin@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) wrote:
> In article <waterman.722038647@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> waterman@cs.brandeis.edu writes:
> 
> 			............................
> 
> >>I do not see how any system of references will enable writing
> 
> >>	*fill(*descriptor)
> 
> >>any faster. 
> 
> >How about
> >	fill(descriptor)  ?
> 
> >Remeber, the dereferencing of the names 'fill' and 'descriptor'
> >are done only once, at _compile_ time, and don't take up a single
> >iota of energy at _run_ time.
> 
> "This does not compute."  The module which produces the contents of
> fill and descriptor is compiled separately from the one that calls it.
> In addition, I specified that there may even be run-time changes, which
> the calling module does not know.  

So? Why do you keep assuming that people are using C syntax? There
have been languages for 20+ years that would take the exact syntax
given, and do exactly what you want with it.

Your continued failure to understand this utterly trivial point isn't
doing your net-image any good.

	<mike