From: rlove@antispam.neosoft.com (Robert B. Love )
Cc: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: Unchecked_Conversion
Date: 10 Jun 2001 18:20:45 GMT
Date: 2001-06-10T18:20:45+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41F37C284A6DE8C0.8A6A99719FF11B52.8149DC60E20677C9@lp.airnews.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: LdLT6.2225$bA3.107918@www.newsranger.com
In <LdLT6.2225$bA3.107918@www.newsranger.com> Ted Dennison wrote:
> In article <9fnbtt$ild$1@e3k.asi.ansaldo.it>, Lele says...
> >I should convert data types and record data types from one type to
another,
>
> Just to back up Marc here, you should almost *never* have to convert
types. The
> only times I ever have to do it are when interfacing with external
routines that
My experience runs counter to this. My employer has chosen to use
typing for every conceivable measurement. So we have type Meters,
Meters_Per_Second, Feet, Feet_Per_Second, Seconds, Watts, Volts, and so
on.
The list is endless.
To avoid conversions I would have to have hundreds of overloaded
operators.
And to make matters worse, we have generic vectors that can be
instantiated
for the basic types above. I would have to have overloaded operators for
all the vector combinations.
No, using Ada in my problem domain, you are constantly converting types.
And it can be a pain.
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-07 7:46 Unchecked_Conversion Lele
2001-06-07 12:50 ` Why not try Checked_Conversion? Petter Fryklund
2001-06-07 13:01 ` Unchecked_Conversion Marc A. Criley
2001-06-07 13:21 ` Unchecked_Conversion Ted Dennison
2001-06-10 18:20 ` Robert B. Love [this message]
2001-06-10 19:48 ` Unchecked_Conversion Jeff Creem
2001-06-10 22:10 ` Unchecked_Conversion Keith Thompson
2001-06-11 13:56 ` Unchecked_Conversion Ted Dennison
2001-06-11 14:21 ` Unchecked_Conversion Marin David Condic
2001-06-07 14:01 ` Unchecked_Conversion Jacob Sparre Andersen
2001-06-07 19:44 ` Unchecked_Conversion tmoran
2001-06-09 17:07 ` Unchecked_Conversion Robert A Duff
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1992-01-02 6:09 unchecked conversion Robert I. Eachus
1991-12-31 13:53 Jean-Pierre Rosen
1991-12-30 23:25 Greg Lomow
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