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On 26-Jul-14 02:02, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> The mess is to think one could design types as hierarchies.

Ridiculous; it's obvious that some types really do belong in a 
hierarchy. (Granted, not the *same* hierarchy with "one root to rule 
them all, and in the darkness bind them".) -- e.g. there really should 
be a common ["generic"] root, an "abstract type" if you will, for 
strings which conceptually are "instantiated" with the different 
versions of Character (ie [[Wide_]Wide_]Character) but present to the 
programmer a single, unified interface.  The same can be said of float- 
and fixed-point numbers, and possibly integers with a root 
"universal_numeric". (The way we use "untyped constants" [named numbers] 
indicates that exact assumed interface.)