Re: Implementing Abstract Lists

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From: Chip Richards
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 1990 00:38

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Pat,

 > Um, gee.  But if you wanted to add a few more things you'd have to rewrite 
 > the CASE variants statement and recompile lots and lots, maybe.  And change 
 > the CASE statements that would litter the code too. 

Quite right.  We do it at work *a lot*, and "we hates it"!  My little part of the world is only a quarter of a million lines, but just to re-build it, after a global include file change, takes three or four hours using four or five Apollo DN3000s.  So, we got a slow compiler.  Sue me. 

But couldn't you get yourself in much worse trouble using all the "ADR OF ARRAY OF BYTE" crap they're proposing as alternatives?  We also see a lot of *that* at work, and "hate" isn't a strong enough word for how we feel about the practice.  <grin>

Chip


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