Re: use of setjmp/longjmp in x86 emulator.

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

On 03/01/2010 03:34 PM, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> 
> But I'd rather implement a new language where acquisition of resources 
> such as locks, dynamically allocated objects, and ref counts are 
> predicated in the function typing and are heavily encouraged to possess 
> defined inverses.  Then the closure of a particular layer of nesting 
> already has enough information to provide release upon escape, and the 
> compiler can easily take the burden of checking for a large class of 
> lock and resource violation.
> 
> And it would have to be prettier than the current languages that do 
> that, meaning operator overloading would be banned.  Although it would 
> define rational numbers, super-extended precision arithmetic, imaginary 
> numbers, quaternions and matrices as part of the spec, so there would be 
> no need to use arithmetic overrides anyway, and then all the nonsensical 
> operators could die, die, die, especially the function () and logical 
> operator overrides.
> 

/me takes away Zach's caffeine.

	-hpa