Re: Date manipulation

From: Judson McClendon (judmc_at_sunvaley0.com)
Date: 01/01/04 

Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 23:23:14 GMT

"Richard" <riplin@Azonic.co.nz> wrote:
> "Howard Brazee" <howard@brazee.net> wrote
> > >
> > > How would the compiler do that ?
> >
> > By having a little bit of smarts. It isn't difficult to see that the same
> > function was called 6 times in one display statement.
>
> And what if it was FUNCTION RANDOM that was being called 6 times ?
> Would the compiler think that it is a good idea to make that just one
> call ?
>
> How about FUNCTION READ_NEXT_RECORD?

Richard, that brings up a thought, relative to the OO threads now ongoing.
What about those Universal Object References Thane was mentioning, in
this context? I can see where you could potentially get a very different
result from early and late binding in this case. In one case the compiler
knows, in the other it doesn't. Implementation might be a bit tricky.

No criticism of OO here, it is the ramifications of the concept that I'm
curious about. :-) 

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