From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c89924cb7c8c5a42 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-10-13 06:01:40 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!wn11feed!worldnet.att.net!bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3DA96E28.9090104@worldnet.att.net> From: Jim Rogers User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Who said strong typing is a benefit? References: <8db3d6c8.0210121718.25cf55e4@posting.google.com> <%%8q9.21249$rz6.2550@sccrnsc02> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 13:00:40 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.86.37.168 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1034514040 12.86.37.168 (Sun, 13 Oct 2002 13:00:40 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 13:00:40 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:29740 Date: 2002-10-13T13:00:40+00:00 List-Id: tmoran@acm.org wrote: > What does the interpreter do when you add a 3D vector to a 2D vector, > or do "if A > B" where A and B are complex, etc. I don't doubt that > it will "perform operations no matter what" - I'm just curious what > those operations might turn out to be. > My favorite response to this kind of question is "what will Matlab do when you take the square root of a string?" Jim Rogers