From: Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: General integer-types.
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2013 07:29:29 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2013-04-07T07:29:29-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5afc2bf5-515f-485c-a86f-35f52f854dad@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <kjrbje$akp$1@dont-email.me>
On Sunday, April 7, 2013 2:45:59 AM UTC-6, J-P. Rosen wrote:
>
> A type definition must be static, and a size aspect too. A generic
> formal is never static, therefore you can't define a type from a generic
> parameter. (but of course, a constraint needs not be static, this is why
> it works as a derived type). But then, all instantiations will use the
> same size as Long_Long_Integer, which is likely not what you want.
>
Thanks for the clarification on the sizings (which was confusing).
I was just wondering, because it seemed like a rather common thing [*every* framework/system seems to define its own -- OpenGL, PS, SWE, etc] that it might be nice to be able to "throw the size at a generic" and get it.
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2013-04-07 1:45 General integer-types Shark8
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