Re: RFC 46 (v1) Use features of portable, free compilers

2000-08-06 Thread John Tobey
On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 10:02:23PM -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 07:25:41PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > libraries and tools are better than the vendor counterparts; Sun's > > compilers and linkers are considerably better than GNU's for SPARC C code, > > for example.

Re: RFC 46 (v1) Use features of portable, free compilers

2000-08-06 Thread Russ Allbery
John Tobey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am furthermore *not* suggesting dropping support for non-Unix or > non-GCC platforms. I am merely saying that that is not where our focus > should be. I think our focus should be on portable, standards-compliant code that will run on any platform that

Re: RFC 24 (v1) Semi-finite (lazy) lists

2000-08-06 Thread Jeremy Howard
Ariel Scolnicov wrote: > <...infinite lists...> > This (and your preceeding messages on the subject) is unfortunately > not possible to do in a clean manner; for that matter, neither is the > (..0) proposal. The I in which results are produced depends on > the order in which you generate the elem