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Subject: Re: In precision typing we trust
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 00:33:09 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 28 Aug 2025 00:20:38 -0000 (UTC), Kevin Chadwick wrote:

>> Ada is the best language by far for mapping registers to hardware
>> or data packets via representation clauses. I have found many bugs
>> in STs svd files and C code because of Adas type system.
>
> The reason it's so good aside from Gnats excellent size checks etc.
> is due to precision types :-)

But can you do type checking dynamically, at run-time?

For example, in one project (a Python wrapper for receiving fanotify
events from the Linux kernel), I had to deal with a sequence of
packets of variable length and type. I could dispatch on the
packet-type field and return correspondingly typesafe results in my
wrapper.