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Adrian Hoe wrote:
> When you are in this region, stop by Malaysia and give me a call.

I'm flying on my company's dime, so no side trips to other places
this time around. I'm leaving Hong Kong Sunday morning for home.
I met a friend who lives here and he said that Malaysia was a very
nice place, and he was even thinking of going to live there.

Back in engineering school we would occasionally joke about going
to work making bombs after graduation. The issue never really
arose for me since I went into programming, and I've always worked
on stuff that had nothing to do with weapons systems. Not that I
think it would bother me to do so (insert obligatory reference to
Tom Lehrer's song about Werner von Braun :-)

To go back on topic for a minute (what a concept!), another thread
got me wondering just how useful in practice ranged types are.
What situations lead one to declare a type which is limited to a
range of integers? I'm thinking fixed-size arrays, which I usually
consider to be a design error.