Christopher Smith wrote:
bounded vs. unbounded.
The past tense of bind is bound. The adverbial form of bound is bounded.
"unbounded" -> With no boundary.
"unbound" -> Disassociated.
The declaration "int i" in C makes i bound to a bounded range of values.
It's not obvious from your description which one you're talking about,
and lots of non-native speakers of English get this wrong, so I thought
I'd point that out.
Plus, it's not really clear what axis something like Smalltalk or C#
falls on. Smalltalk would seem to be dynamic but bounded, while C# is
static (ignoring polymorphism) and bounded.
also argue that technically stuff like COM shows that C++ leaves enough
of a door open to do runtime, unbounded polymorphism, but concede that
I'm pretty sure you have to violate the rules of the C++ language to
actually implement this. I.e., you have to go outside the defined
language semantics to do anything like loading new code and jumping to
it. Unlike, say, Ada, where handling interrupts and loading code
dynamically and all that sort of thing is actually supported by language
features.
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