Re: Ada Smileys in C++ lib Conversion

[Georg Bauhaus <rm-host.bauhaus@maps.futureapps.de>]

On 8/14/10 3:36 AM, Warren wrote:

> Heh heh. This is one of those things that C/C++ cannot
> guard against at all. Unless the value(s) were to exceed
> the underlying type's storage capability, the compiler
> is helpless to identify it. There is simply no concept of
> a "range" of valid values in that language.

You might want to look at Maciej's demo of range checked
types in C++, though.

Since C++ programmers and language makers are fine with
things defined in libraries, not language, they can
point to programmers who just have to ...


> But if you leave it up to programmers coding assertions,
> then you know they won't exist everywhere they're needed.

Bad programmers cannot be held responsible for a perfectly
applicable language design when they don't know how to
use the language properly;-)


Georg