Re: imagining a programming language with a capability calling convention

Mark Miller <[email protected]> Mon, 14 Sep 2015 09:01:34 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.capabilities.general
Message-ID <CAK5yZYhsYdbwp87okk=gyuQ=4n=Ga8rYfcx7zGMMhU3ai8bvpw@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 11:48 PM, Raoul Duke <[email protected]> wrote:

> > If we're talking about memory safe languages, why lame?
>
> paranoid hedging of bet. e.g. watch out for reflection?
>
> > If creation does not violate the connectivity laws nor cause external
> > effects, what's the problem?
>
> uh, are those the case in bog-standard run-of-the-mill languages &
> environments?
>
> i mean since there are projects to e.g. tame Java, Ocaml, JavaScript,
> you name it, there are probably plenty of problems with our "standard
> OOP" languages.


None of the problems with those languages are with their mechanisms for
calling or creation. As an ocap call mechanism, their calling mechanisms
are all fine.


-- 
  Cheers,
  --MarkM

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