Re: Memory leak with cursors and data structures

>>>>> "Franck" == Franck Arnaud <[email protected]> writes:

    >> Are you going to remove "from" and "until" as well?

    Franck> it goes without saying.

No it doesn't. What about variant and invariant? Does it go without
saying that you are going to remove invariant? And until might want to
be re-used.

    Franck> INTEGER_INTERVAL.do_all, I'd use recursion, it would help
    Franck> if the compiler recognises it in some way so that the
    Franck> generated code does not use stack space, but it's the only
    Franck> place where you need a slight implementation-level cheat.

If the compiler can implement tail recursion, why can't you?

    Franck> as for loops which are open ended and not index-based, (1
    Franck> |..| Maximum_integer).do_until should be OK, and again if

Not for network servers which implement do forever until shutdown
request.
This might well exceed Maximum_integer.

    Franck> all else fails you can always fallback on recursion but

Oh no you can't!
-- 
Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire

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