Re: Template and dynamic dispatching

2005-04-16 Thread Larry Evans
On 04/16/2005 10:19 AM, Larry Evans wrote: [snip] I briefly looked at several papers from: http://www.praxis-his.com/publications/ [snip] principled_design_oo.pdf [snip] I should mention that this paper does mention dynamic dispatching but nothing about templates or generic types.

Re: Template and dynamic dispatching

2005-04-16 Thread Larry Evans
On 04/15/2005 08:36 PM, Robert Dewar wrote: [snip] As I said, templates and Ada generics cause trouble with certification requirements in two respects. First, they have the potential to intefere with required traceability from source to object. Second, there are a number of formal techniques that a

Re: Template and dynamic dispatching

2005-04-15 Thread Robert Dewar
Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: C++ templates do not involve dynamic dispatching (I would suspect the same to be true for Ada generics) so I do not understand your comment. Maybe there are unsopken assumptions? As I said, templates and Ada generics cause trouble with certification requirements in two respe

Re: Template and dynamic dispatching

2005-04-15 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
[ I changed the title so that the main topic -- volatile and C++ -- not be diluted ] Robert Dewar: > Paul Koning wrote: >>>"Marcin" == Marcin Dalecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >> Marcin> On 2005-04-15, at 20:18, Mike Stump wrote: >> >> >> On Thursday, April 14, 2005, at 08:48 PM, M