On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 7:32 PM, Jonathan S. Shapiro <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 10:58 PM, Raoul Duke <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> the more things can be called out as individual concepts, the better
>> the docs will be and the easier it will be for people to self teach.
>
>
> So would it be fair to say that you prefer the Ada approach to layout
> specification (separate from the datatype) over the C approach where field
> types have a defined type and alignment?

interesting that this should come up here, as it (separate layout)
presents another opportunity for partial opacity, that is 2 views of a
datatype with the same layout, one of which is missing fields
producing an opaque hole in the datatype, useful and worth the effort
i'm not sure...
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