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Date: 2012-04-29T12:32:16-05:00
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On 2012-04-29 07:57:12 +0000, J-P. Rosen said:

> Le 27/04/2012 09:41, Jacob Sparre Andersen a �crit :
>> And the rationale: I believe that avoiding predefined types will limit
>> the temptation to use the same type (or two types) for all numerical
>> objects.
> 
> Unfortunately, I have seen too many industrial projects that forbid the
> use of predefined type, but where people define:
>    type Byte is range 0..255;
> and then use only this all over the place...

Yes, I've done it.  What would you recommend instead?


> 
> No language rule can compensate for insufficient training!