[DGD] lambda operator re-re-visited?

[Raymond Jennings]

Please please please oh please do not use line numbers as discriminants.

Source code is VERY mutable, and even a reformatting can change things.

On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 3:53 AM, Carter Cheng <cartercheng at gmail.com> wrote:

> Actually I do not see it as that heuristical once the discriminant is added
> the identifier is unique. Also basically programs are identified by file
> name in the common case already. So you would have something like
> filename#line number.discriminant for a given program and any object would
> include the additional object number.. The discriminant is to differentiate
> between two "closures" originating from the same line.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 5:03 PM, Felix A. Croes <felix at dworkin.nl> wrote:
>
> > Carter Cheng <cartercheng at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I think breaking the anonymity a bit for the purposes of recompilation
> > > might be a possible solution. I.e. associating something like a file
> path
> > > and line number with some extra discriminant to each closure's metadata
> > and
> > > having a way to locate the anonymous functions associated with a given
> > > piece of source.
> >
> > Giving up the anonymity would be a solution, but what you are proposing
> > is just a heuristic.  I doubt that it will be so easy.  It would be no
> > good if a failing testcase can be constructed for it.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Felix Croes
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