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Re: [patch] Lno branch merge -- scalar evolutions analyzer



On Jul 6, 2004, at 15:45, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
Err, no, it's called abstraction.  It enables you to change the
internal data structure without having to go through all users of the
data structure and change them as well.

That's different. One difference is that you document the functions
as returning fields of a data structure, but instead in more abstract
terms.



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