[Axiom-developer] Re: [Axiom-mail] Enumeration

[Ralf Hemmecke]

On 05/26/2007 09:42 PM, Bill Page wrote:
> On May 26, 2007 3:35 PM Ralf Hemmecke wrote:
> > > Enumeration is an important built-in type in Aldor, but I
> > > Axiom I get mixed (strange) results...
> > Maybe, Enumeration is also not very well implemented in the
> > current Aldor compiler. Some years ago I tried to use it
> > heavily and got some strange segfaults after which I was
> > told better not to use Enumeration.

> Don't believe everything you are told about Aldor... ;)

I don't. Part of it an experience of time that I wasted.

> Seriously, the Enumeration type is used in an integral
> manner in both the Record and Union types, so I think
> it is pretty important.

Sure. I was speaking about the compiler, not the language.

> > But that is just a side remark of no relevance for the
> > SPAD development.

> Au contraire, I think properly implementing Enumeration
> as a built-in type in Spad is potentially quite important.

I meant that whether Enumeration is implemented well or not in the Aldor 
compiler should have no relevance to a proper implementation in SPAD.
Sorry, if I was unclear.

Ralf

PS: Shouldn't that thread just be in axiom-developer?