[e-lang] get/put for Slots

[Norman Hardy]

Algol 68 insists on orthogonality.
In particular it wants to make the type constructors REF and ROW  
orthogonal.
In Algol68 there are types: INT, REF INT, ROW INT, REF ROW INT, ROW  
REF INT, etc.
They are all different and all useful.
I wrote something up on this a couple of years ago at <http://cap- 
lore.com/Languages/aref.html>.

On Aug 30, 2006, at 8:05 AM, David Hopwood wrote:

> Dean Tribble wrote:
>> I'm not sure that it is useful to tempt people into cleverly  
>> oveloading
>> slots with lists, etc. :-)  Do you have a pattern of usage in  
>> mind?  My
>> preference would be to have a protocol that highlighted when a  
>> slot was
>> being accessed via methods since that's a likely source of inobvious
>> aliasing.
>
> Mutable slots and mutable arrays both introduce aliasing, so I  
> don't really
> see why using similar syntax would make this aliasing inobvious.
>
> -- 
> David Hopwood <david.nospam.hopwood at blueyonder.co.uk>
>
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