Changeset 9d9a451 for doc/theses

Timestamp:

Mar 12, 2019, 2:49:34 PM (6 years ago)

Author:

Aaron Moss <a3moss@…>

Branches:

ADT, aaron-thesis, arm-eh, ast-experimental, cleanup-dtors, enum, forall-pointer-decay, jacob/cs343-translation, jenkins-sandbox, master, new-ast, new-ast-unique-expr, pthread-emulation, qualifiedEnum

Children:

53bb8f1

Parents:

e402bbc

Message:

thesis: fix zero_t reference to generic chapter

File:

• doc/theses/aaron_moss_PhD/phd/background.tex (modified) (1 diff)

doc/theses/aaron_moss_PhD/phd/background.tex

@@ -89 +89 @@
 
 \CFA{} previously allowed !0! and !1! to be the names of polymorphic variables, with separate overloads for !int 0!, !int 1!, and !forall(dtype T) T* 0!. 
-As revealed in the work presented here on generic types (Chapter~\ref{generic-chap}), the parametric polymorphic zero variable is not generalizable to other types; though all null pointers have the same in-memory representation, the same cannot be said of the zero values of arbitrary types. 
+While designing \CFA{} generic types (see Chapter~\ref{generic-chap}), it was discovered that the parametric polymorphic zero variable is not generalizable to other types; though all null pointers have the same in-memory representation, the same cannot be said of the zero values of arbitrary types. 
 As such, variables that could represent !0! and !1! were phased out in favour of functions that could generate those values for a given type as appropriate.