On 08/04/2009 03:48 PM, Hiisi wrote: >> I don't know if many folks these days are familiar with the "pass by >> name" operation. Such code these days is generally not implemented
> I didn't understand initially what "pass by name means". Probably had to > look more careful at the program. I didn't think you did. Its a common mistake made by people trying to port ALGOL-60 programs who don't understand ALGOL-60 semantics. I just wanted you to be aware since you were porting to C++ and you could have inadvertently introduced bugs if you had incorrectly re-coded any semantic which relied on the pass-by-name convention of argument passing in some other section of the code. "pass by reference" and "pass by value" are the 2 semantics implemented by most modern programming languages, and you chose one of the few old languages which does "pass by name" instead. > Doesn't matter any more. I need to do a statement: this thread is closed > from now. Ones more: thanks everybody for your responses! Good luck with your new code. -- Kevin J. Cummings kjch...@rcn.com cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net cummi...@kjc386.framingham.ma.us Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
