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SubjectRe: use of setjmp/longjmp in x86 emulator.
On 03/01/2010 03:34 PM, Zachary Amsden wrote:
>
> But I'd rather implement a new language where acquisition of resources
> such as locks, dynamically allocated objects, and ref counts are
> predicated in the function typing and are heavily encouraged to possess
> defined inverses. Then the closure of a particular layer of nesting
> already has enough information to provide release upon escape, and the
> compiler can easily take the burden of checking for a large class of
> lock and resource violation.
>
> And it would have to be prettier than the current languages that do
> that, meaning operator overloading would be banned. Although it would
> define rational numbers, super-extended precision arithmetic, imaginary
> numbers, quaternions and matrices as part of the spec, so there would be
> no need to use arithmetic overrides anyway, and then all the nonsensical
> operators could die, die, die, especially the function () and logical
> operator overrides.
>

/me takes away Zach's caffeine.

-hpa



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