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From: nospam@see.signature (Richard Maine)
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Subject: Re: condition true or false? ->  (-1 < sizeof("test"))
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 08:37:46 -0700
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Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> wrote:

> Forwarding this to guys who write code in real languages to see what they
> think of this. AFAIK you cannot get something like that past the compiler in
> Ada...and you would have to define a type or a subtype to even have an
> unsigned int unless you use a modular type IIRC. In FORTRAN I don't remember
> an unsigned integer but I haven't used it much since FORTRAN IV.

Correct on the factual question. Standard Fortran has no unsigned kinds.
Some compilers do such a thing as an extension, but as is the nature of
extensions, one cannot guarantee that all compilers would make the same
choices on the fine points.

I won't comment on the rest. The parts you cited already sounded like a
flame fest, and using a term "real languages" doesn't help much. I won't
participate in any discussion that has already degraded to that point.

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