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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Tue, 22 Nov 1994 08:17:18 MST
To: icon-group-l@cs.arizona.edu
Date: 22 Nov 1994 12:49:51 GMT
From: ruiter@ruls41.fsw.LeidenUniv.nl (Jan-Peter de Ruiter)
Message-Id: <3aspdf$ob3@highway.LeidenUniv.nl>
Organization: Leiden University, The Netherlands
Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
References: <3aofof$f5m@highway.leidenuniv.nl>, <3aonpq$4kp@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>, <3aqp29$do0@cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu>
Subject: Re: optional typing in Icon (longish)
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
Nick Kline (kline@CS.Arizona.EDU) wrote:
: If we could somehow figure out that certain things were only going to
: be used as ints (and it is sure possible), then we would need to have a much
: more complex runtime, which instead of simply passing ptrs to "objects" as
: parameters to icon internal routines, we'd need to special case all
: that code in the case where we already knew things were ints.
Sure, some code would have to be added, but a *lot* of code
does not need to be executed anymore. It's just two sides of a coin.
Jan