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Re: The Trouble with WITH...

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From: M Hamburg
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 17:45
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Stefan H-M Ludwig writes:

"I strongly advocate dropping WITH on pointers in commercial compilers."

The canonical form for a frame handler in the Oberon system begins with a
WITH on a pointer. (For example, see Reiser 19.4.1, p. 270.) One could
redesign the system so that it either used type-bound procedures or passed
the frame as a VAR parameter, but the former means that we lose the
ability to change behavior just by using a different handler proc and the
latter means that we don't have the pointer to the frame if we needed it
for something like change notification.

Mark
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