MemoryLayout api

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

On 22/01/2020 06:24, John Rose wrote:
> On Jan 21, 2020, at 8:13 AM, forax at univ-mlv.fr 
> <mailto:forax at univ-mlv.fr> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Yes - I agree - the story is not fully baked here. What I'd like to 
>>> do is,
>>> eventually, to provide "partially" instantiated var handles, where 
>>> all sizes
>>> left unspecified in the layout must be provided as an extra acquired 
>>> dimension.
>>
>>> I think this will bring back things to static-ness - what do you think?
>> yes,
>> good idea !
>
> Piling on here:  The extra “length” argument could be
> bound to a constant (cf. `MHs.insertArguments`) or
> else folded from a call to an auxiliary VH that computes
> the bound (cf. `MHs.foldArguments`, but for an argument
> that isn’t the initial one).
>
Yep... and I'm about to submit a RFR for adding VarHandle adapters to 
help with that (among other things) :-)

Maurizio