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Re: AI and decompilation?

From Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.sys.raspberry-pi
Subject Re: AI and decompilation?
Date 2021-01-05 22:23 +0000
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On Tue, 05 Jan 2021 20:20:27 +0000, gareth evans wrote:

> On 05/01/2021 20:12, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>> On 2021-01-05, Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 05 Jan 2021 15:30:06 +0000, gareth evans wrote:
>>>
>>>> That it warrants such an involved explanation is very good reason why
>>>> such techniques should be avoided today!  :-)
>>>
>>> Agreed.
>>>
>>> That sort of thing is so much easier in Java or Algol 68, which both
>>> recognise that methods/procedures with the same name but different
>>> parameter lists are indeed different pieces of code rather than a
>>> stupid mistake.
>>
>> I avoid that technique - it invites other stupid mistakes.
>>
>>
> +1
> 
> Why any coder would want a procname with different calling lists is
> beyond me.
> 
> To object to having x_procname and y_procname etc suggests a coder is
> not focussed on the matter in hand but is religiously adhering to some
> irrelevant convention.

Its very useful indeed in Java: its often helpful to use the same name 
with different parameter lists for constructors and also for methods that 
all do similar jobs, e.g for outputting values from a class its helpful 
to use the same method name,  with different parameter lists say: 

getValue(String caption, int value);
getValue(String caption, double value);
getValue(String caption, boolean value);

where inventing a set of different method names adds little clarity to 
the code and about the only likely mistake is to try to use it with an 
unsupported type of value - which will cause a compilation error as you 
might expect.

Similarly, the ability to something similar in Algol 68, is equally 
convenient ana, IME anyway, doesn't make the code any more error prone or 
less readable. 

In both languages, context selects the appropriate method or proc and 
using an undefined variation gets you a compilation error, despite Algol 
68's tendency to widen numeric values to fit a parameter definition.


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AI and decompilation? gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2021-01-04 11:00 +0000
  Re: AI and decompilation? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-01-04 11:42 +0000
  Re: AI and decompilation? Pancho <Pancho.Dontmaileme@outlook.com> - 2021-01-04 13:08 +0000
    Re: AI and decompilation? gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2021-01-04 17:51 +0000
      Re: AI and decompilation? Pancho <Pancho.Dontmaileme@outlook.com> - 2021-01-04 21:57 +0000
        Re: AI and decompilation? gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2021-01-04 22:23 +0000
          Re: AI and decompilation? Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2021-01-04 23:09 +0000
        Re: AI and decompilation? Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2021-01-04 17:50 -0500
          Re: AI and decompilation? Pancho <Pancho.Dontmaileme@outlook.com> - 2021-01-04 23:00 +0000
            Re: AI and decompilation? Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2021-01-04 16:59 -0700
            Re: AI and decompilation? J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2021-01-04 20:42 -0500
              Re: AI and decompilation? Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2021-01-04 20:59 -0500
            Re: AI and decompilation? Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2021-01-04 20:55 -0500
              Re: AI and decompilation? Pancho <Pancho.Dontmaileme@outlook.com> - 2021-01-05 10:38 +0000
                Re: AI and decompilation? Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2021-01-05 12:46 +0000
                Re: AI and decompilation? Pancho <Pancho.Dontmaileme@outlook.com> - 2021-01-05 13:43 +0000
                Re: AI and decompilation? Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2021-01-05 14:23 +0000
                Re: AI and decompilation? gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2021-01-05 15:22 +0000
                Re: AI and decompilation? Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2021-01-05 09:05 -0500
            Re: AI and decompilation? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-05 10:51 +0000
              Re: AI and decompilation? Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2021-01-05 11:52 +0000
              Re: AI and decompilation? gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2021-01-05 12:06 +0000
              Re: AI and decompilation? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-01-05 20:12 +0000
          Re: AI and decompilation? gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2021-01-05 11:45 +0000
            Re: AI and decompilation? Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2021-01-05 14:25 -0700
        Re: AI and decompilation? J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2021-01-04 20:38 -0500
          Re: AI and decompilation? gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2021-01-05 11:54 +0000
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            Re: AI and decompilation? gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2021-01-05 22:52 +0000
        Re: AI and decompilation? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-05 10:29 +0000
  Re: AI and decompilation? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2021-01-04 11:05 -0500
    Re: AI and decompilation? Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2021-01-04 17:07 +0000
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        Re: AI and decompilation? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-05 10:28 +0000
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            Re: AI and decompilation? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-05 13:41 +0000
            Re: AI and decompilation? gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2021-01-05 15:30 +0000
              Re: AI and decompilation? Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2021-01-05 16:42 +0000
                Re: AI and decompilation? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-01-05 20:12 +0000
                Re: AI and decompilation? gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2021-01-05 20:20 +0000
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                Re: AI and decompilation? Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2021-01-08 15:56 +0000
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