From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Leading zeros with Int_IO.Put()? Or another package?
Date: 1996/11/22
Date: 1996-11-22T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.848712916@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 56rfv3$q2b$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au
robin says
"Really! The task is to convert to string type. You're saying
that that's not a type conversion."
Yes, well of course a PL/1 programmer would regard the routine that
takes an integer as input and generates some corresponding string
to be a "type conversion", but most other languages would not, and
indeed this kind of over-extensive notion of type conversion is one
of the clearly recognized errors in the PL/1 design, but clearly
recognized here, I mean recognized in the programming language
design community -- I don't think anyone would repeat that mistake.
Of course PL/1 programmers won't agree, but then any language has its
ardent advocates who think it is 100% right, so the existence of such
ardent advocates does not prove anything about a language :-)
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1996-11-05 0:00 Leading zeros with Int_IO.Put()? Or another package? J.D. Baldwin
1996-11-05 0:00 ` David Shochat
1996-11-08 0:00 ` robin
1996-11-08 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-11-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-10 0:00 ` Verne Arase
1996-11-13 0:00 ` robin
1996-11-13 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-11-19 0:00 ` robin
1996-11-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-20 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-20 0:00 ` robin
1996-11-20 0:00 ` Larry J. Elmore
1996-11-25 0:00 ` robin
1996-11-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-26 0:00 ` Larry J. Elmore
1996-11-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-25 0:00 ` shmuel
1996-11-20 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-22 0:00 ` robin
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-23 0:00 ` robin
1996-11-21 0:00 ` Jerry Coffin
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-11-20 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-11-27 0:00 ` Verne Arase
1996-12-02 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
[not found] ` <56tjrh$4a <MPLANET.3294c204jcoffin989a3e@news.rmi.net>
1996-11-24 0:00 ` Bert
1996-11-13 0:00 ` robin
1996-11-13 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-11-19 0:00 ` robin
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-11-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-21 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-11-22 0:00 ` robin
1996-11-05 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-11-08 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-07 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1996-11-07 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-08 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-08 0:00 ` David Emery
1996-11-24 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-11-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-25 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-11-25 0:00 ` J. David Bryan
1996-11-27 0:00 ` Verne Arase
1996-11-28 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1996-12-15 0:00 Robert Dewar
1996-11-05 0:00 Collection of 2500+ links about Object-Orientation - interested ? Manfred Schneider
1996-11-07 0:00 ` Leading zeros with Int_IO.Put()? Or another package? John Herro
1996-11-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-07 0:00 ` James Rogers
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