From: "Ken Garlington" <Ken.Garlington@computer.org>
Subject: Re: Static typing (Was Re: Better support for garbage collection)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 01:32:27 GMT
Date: 2001-03-21T01:32:27+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <LwTt6.704$EG6.248219745@newssvr16.news.prodigy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.BSF.4.21.0103192012240.2056-100000@shell5.ba.best.com
"Brian Rogoff" <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> wrote in message
news:Pine.BSF.4.21.0103192012240.2056-100000@shell5.ba.best.com...
: > One thing I don't like in Ada is that '0' can't be a Float.
: > After all, when I write the rational number "one half" on
: > a piece of paper, I can write something like "1/2", and everybody knows
: > what I mean. I don't write "1.0/2.0" -- the ".0" is superfluous.
:
: Hmmm, that one never bothered me, but now that you mention it.
Can't see why, since the terms "rational number" and "floating-point number"
are not the same. I think I'd be much more bothered by a floating-point
number without a (floating) point!
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2001-03-13 18:37 Better support for garbage collection Nick Roberts
2001-03-14 8:16 ` Florian Weimer
2001-03-14 18:52 ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-14 19:40 ` Florian Weimer
2001-03-15 13:18 ` Nick Roberts
2001-03-14 19:29 ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-14 20:59 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-03-16 16:42 ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-17 6:13 ` Lao Xiao Hai
2001-03-24 4:08 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-03-15 4:35 ` Nick Roberts
2001-03-15 21:37 ` Randy Brukardt
2001-03-15 22:36 ` Stephen Leake
2001-03-16 16:26 ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-16 16:59 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-03-16 17:31 ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-16 18:29 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-03-17 2:30 ` Nick Roberts
2001-03-17 21:59 ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-17 22:57 ` Static typing (Was Re: Better support for garbage collection) Brian Rogoff
2001-03-17 23:45 ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-18 0:58 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-03-19 15:24 ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-20 4:21 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-03-21 1:32 ` Ken Garlington [this message]
2001-03-21 13:28 ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-22 2:08 ` Ken Garlington
2001-03-22 16:40 ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-25 16:21 ` Ken Garlington
2001-03-25 16:56 ` Ken Garlington
2001-03-25 22:31 ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-27 0:24 ` Ken Garlington
2001-03-28 23:15 ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-29 5:02 ` Ken Garlington
2001-03-29 6:13 ` David Starner
2001-03-29 10:10 ` AG
2001-03-29 14:28 ` Ken Garlington
2001-03-29 23:46 ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-30 3:41 ` Ken Garlington
2001-03-30 21:21 ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-31 19:30 ` Ken Garlington
2001-04-02 15:27 ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-02 23:29 ` Ken Garlington
2001-03-30 21:29 ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-30 9:16 ` Dmitry Kazakov
2001-03-30 9:51 ` Florian Weimer
2001-04-02 8:54 ` Dmitry Kazakov
2001-03-30 16:13 ` Ken Garlington
2001-04-02 11:00 ` Dmitry Kazakov
2001-03-30 20:44 ` Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
2001-04-02 11:29 ` Dmitry Kazakov
2001-04-02 13:15 ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-03 8:57 ` Dmitry Kazakov
2001-03-27 2:39 ` Andrew Berg
2001-03-27 3:33 ` Ken Garlington
2001-03-27 14:23 ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-27 23:36 ` Ken Garlington
2001-03-29 23:50 ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-19 18:24 ` Better support for garbage collection Tucker Taft
[not found] ` <87bsr46kxv.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>
2001-03-15 14:18 ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-15 16:36 ` Florian Weimer
2001-03-14 22:05 ` Laurent Guerby
2001-03-16 16:47 ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-16 19:46 ` Laurent Guerby
2001-03-16 20:10 ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-17 13:14 ` Support for per allocation pool selection (was: Better support for garbage collection) Laurent Guerby
2001-03-17 17:06 ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-17 19:19 ` Florian Weimer
2001-03-17 21:10 ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-15 17:56 ` Better support for garbage collection Ray Blaak
2001-03-21 16:15 ` Implementing C/C++ style #include bhazzard
2001-03-21 16:45 ` Marin David Condic
2001-03-22 15:13 ` Ira D. Baxter
2001-03-22 15:23 ` Marin David Condic
2001-03-25 15:45 ` Anton Gibbs
2001-03-26 14:24 ` Ted Dennison
2001-03-26 15:00 ` Marin David Condic
2001-03-26 14:49 ` Marin David Condic
2001-03-26 18:19 ` Stephen Leake
2001-03-26 18:44 ` Pascal Obry
2001-03-26 21:44 ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-27 3:02 ` Andrew Berg
2001-03-27 3:27 ` Phaedrus
2001-03-27 17:41 ` Pascal Obry
2001-03-26 19:18 ` Ted Dennison
2001-03-27 18:51 ` Anton Gibbs
2001-03-26 19:35 ` Marin David Condic
2001-03-26 23:04 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-03-27 14:38 ` Marin David Condic
2001-03-26 16:12 ` Florian Weimer
2001-03-26 17:34 ` David Starner
2001-03-26 22:25 ` Florian Weimer
2001-03-27 3:29 ` David Starner
2001-03-26 18:23 ` Stephen Leake
2001-03-26 22:34 ` Florian Weimer
2001-03-27 7:34 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2001-03-27 12:43 ` Dale Stanbrough
2001-03-27 14:40 ` Marin David Condic
2001-03-27 15:01 ` Ted Dennison
2001-03-27 13:20 ` Preben Randhol
2001-03-23 17:39 ` Wes Groleau
2001-03-21 18:07 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-03-22 12:50 ` Chris M. Moore
2001-03-22 14:30 ` Marin David Condic
2001-03-22 21:15 ` singlespeeder
2001-03-22 21:42 ` Marin David Condic
2001-03-23 14:43 ` Georg Bauhaus
2001-03-23 18:51 ` Marin David Condic
2001-03-22 15:02 ` Pat Rogers
2001-03-22 15:28 ` Marin David Condic
2001-03-22 16:32 ` Chris M. Moore
2001-03-22 16:57 ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-26 16:13 ` Martin Dowie
2001-03-26 22:55 ` Phaedrus
2001-03-27 1:36 ` tmoran
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