Re: Why would anyone want opacity?

[Guillermo J. Rozas <gjr@martigny.ai.mit.edu>]

|   Cc: oz@nexus.yorku.ca, blume@cs.Princeton.EDU, gjs@martigny.ai.mit.edu,
|	   rrrs-authors@martigny.ai.mit.edu, oz@nexus.yorku.ca
|   Date: Tue, 14 May 96 17:08:13 -0400
|   From: "ozan s. yigit" <oz@nexus.yorku.ca>

|   i unfortunately have not seen the language definition. do you remember
|   offhand how it is specified exactly?

I have, but a long time ago.  I can't quote it.  However, unless my
memory fails completely, types were an integral part of it.

|
|   >			 The constraints
|   > are in the language, not in the tools/implementations.
|
|   all languages are defined with constraints, and in able to express anything
|   useful in them, you have to work with those constraints. so what is special
|   about that? maybe you just mean "constraints different than the ones i know
|   and love" and that is fine of course...

You seem have a habit of making arguments ad-hominem.  I will not
otherwise reply to this.