From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1dd28d5040ded1f8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-16 20:07:51 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!HSNX.atgi.net!newsfeed.frii.net!news-x2.support.nl!psinet-eu-nl!psiuk-p4!uknet!psiuk-p3!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Announce: Grace project site operational Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 09:36:27 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: References: <4519e058.0205150657.3b695758@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1021556190 17431 136.170.200.133 (16 May 2002 13:36:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 May 2002 13:36:30 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:24248 Date: 2002-05-16T13:36:30+00:00 List-Id: I agree that strong typing is a good thing - usually. But do you think you might get the benefit of strong typing if, for example, there was a single type being used for a package supporting Chemistry calculations - possibly with subtypes for the individual units? Or would you insist that the safety can only come if each variety of unit has its own type? (In the first case, you would definitely catch Mole * Acceleration, because the two would be of different types for different problem-domain packages.) MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com wrote in message news:KLBE8.2611$Ms5.182082818@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com... > debug slowly (or explain to Congress, painfully). In the real world, how > often does a chemist need accelerations, or a mechanical engineer mol, > anybody mole*acceleration. > Strong typing is a powerful tool to expose errors. You need an > awfully good reason to forswear use of such a tool.