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From: mattel@auto-trol.com (Matt Telles)
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Subject: Re: solution to implementing parameterized classes
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.192349.18222@auto-trol.com>
Date: 12 Jun 91 19:23:49 GMT
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In article <1991Jun12.171947.28079@iitmax.iit.edu> gkt@iitmax.iit.edu (George Thiruvathukal) writes:
>In article <1991Jun11.183133.11458@auto-trol.com>, mattel@auto-trol.com (Matt Telles) writes:
>>    FINALLY!  Someone else that dislikes the idea of a pointer to nothing ...
>> Can't we define a type called generic????  (You know, like a generic pointer).
>> Matt
>
>...or perhaps one could be allowed to declare variables of type void, given its
>distinguished status as a "scalar" type :-).  Then one can declare variables 
>which hold nothing and for which no space is allocated.
>
>-- 
>George Thiruvathukal
>
>Laboratory for Parallel Computing and Languages
>Illinois Institute of Technology
>Chicago

Hey, I LIKE it!!  We could call it Write-Only-Memory (or WOM for short)...

This could start a whole new programming trend .. non-functional languages...

:) (For the humor impaired...)

Matt.

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