Re: Next Apocalypse

2003-09-19 Thread Dan Sugalski
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Andy Wardley wrote: chromatic wrote: The thinking at the last design meeting was that you'd explicitly say Consider this class closed; I won't muck with it in this application at compile time if you need the extra optimization in a particular application. In

RE: Next Apocalypse

2003-09-19 Thread Gordon Henriksen
chromatic wrote: The point is not for module authors to say no one can ever extend or modify this class. It's for module users to say I'm not extending or modifying this class. Ah, shouldn't optimization be automatic? Much preferrable to provide opt-out optimizations instead of opt-in

Re: Next Apocalypse

2003-09-19 Thread Stéphane Payrard
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 02:12:31PM -0700, chromatic wrote: On Thursday, September 18, 2003, at 12:33 PM, Gordon Henriksen wrote: Ah, shouldn't optimization be automatic? Much preferrable to provide opt-out optimizations instead of opt-in optimizations. No. That's why I tend to opt-out of