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Re: Print the values of the members of a structure

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On 3/6/19 4:05 pm, Tim Rentsch wrote:
> Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> writes:
> 
>>> [superstructure for providing dynamic type information]
>>
>> ... Crickets.
>>
>> Was this story useful to anyone?
> 
> I found it interesting.  I suspect this is one of those things
> that people usually don't really appreciate right away, but
> after using for a while would never want to give it up.  IME
> it's very difficult to convey the value of such things just
> by explaining them.  It sounds like what you did would have a
> lot of value, based on your retrospective.  I didn't have much
> reaction beyond that so I didn't say anything.

Interesting, thanks for your feedback, and you're probably right.

There was quite a lot more to this software infrastructure, but I didn't 
want to rant on forever... I contemplated writing a book on this subject 
("Aspects of Software Library Infrastructure"), from the perspective of 
"what is the nature of each part of the problem, and what kinds of 
characteristics is it reasonable to expect from a software library 
solution". Then perhaps to review some popular frameworks against those 
expectations...

Maybe I should still write that book one day. It's just daunting 
thinking of the evaluation of existing framework libraries... a massive 
task.

Clifford Heath.

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  Re: Print the values of the members of a structure mark.bluemel@gmail.com - 2019-05-29 02:32 -0700
    Re: Print the values of the members of a structure Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2019-05-29 08:28 -0600
      Re: Print the values of the members of a structure ab.avramidis@cloudsolutions.co.uk - 2019-05-29 07:35 -0700
  Re: Print the values of the members of a structure Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-05-29 11:47 +0100
    Re: Print the values of the members of a structure Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-05-29 12:16 +0100
      Re: Print the values of the members of a structure Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-05-29 15:45 +0100
    Re: Print the values of the members of a structure Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2019-05-29 08:34 -0600
      Re: Print the values of the members of a structure Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> - 2019-05-30 11:55 +1000
        Re: Print the values of the members of a structure Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> - 2019-06-02 22:58 +1000
          Re: Print the values of the members of a structure Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-06-02 17:09 +0100
          Re: Print the values of the members of a structure Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2019-06-02 23:05 -0700
            Re: Print the values of the members of a structure Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> - 2019-06-03 17:38 +1000
  Re: Print the values of the members of a structure James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2019-05-29 07:57 -0400

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