Re: Memory leak with cursors and data structures

> No it doesn't. What about variant and invariant? Does it go without
> saying that you are going to remove invariant?

It goes without saying for variant, and it goes without saying that the
non-loop invariant stays.

> And until might want to be re-used.

yes, I'm only talking of the looping construct, it might indeed be an
opportunity to reuse the keywords, keyword reuse would require some
saying.
 
>     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?

well you can actually:

class INTEGER_INTERVAL
...
  do_all (a_agent: PROCEDURE [ANY, TUPLE[INTEGER])
     -- Apply to all integers between 'lower' and 'upper'.
    local
      i: INTEGER
    do
       if i <= count then
         a_agent.call ([i + lower])
         i := i + 1
         raise ("forth")
       end -- else exit loop
    rescue
       retry
    end
end

arguably that's a bit sick. but it also confirms that we have too many
looping constructs as we stand. also a drawback is that when I will
suggest removing "retry" you're going to argue that we need it to
implement INTEGER_INTERVAL :-).

>     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.

that's debatable. with 64 bit integers you can do_forever 1 billion
times a second for 100 years, which is a hell of an uptime for a network
server, and a hell of a lot of transaction throughput. for 32 bit it is
perhaps slightly more debatable but then you can implement 64 bit one on
top of 2 32 bits ones.

>     Franck> all else fails you can always fallback on recursion but
> Oh no you can't!

in what way?

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