From: "Jed" <jehdiah@orbitway.net>
Subject: Re: Why use C++?
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:07:50 -0500
Date: 2011-08-12T00:07:50-05:00 [thread overview]
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"Georg Bauhaus" <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de> wrote in message
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> On 11.08.11 12:57, Jed wrote:
>
>> You have to build those types though based upon the built-in ones,
>> yes?
>> If so, aren't modular, wrapping and overflow-checked equally good for
>> something and all worthy of being in a language? Of course there is
>> signed, unsigned and the different bit widths as candidates also. And
>> are
>> not those built-ins good to use "raw" in many cases? Are you
>> suggesting
>> that a language have NO types? There is assembly language for that
>> (and
>> the instruction set pretty much dictates what types you have to work
>> with
>> at that level).
>
> I like means to construct discrete types, for example, from
> items expressible in the language without explicitly referring
> to some built-in named type. Let literals 0 and 15 be known to the
> compiler. Let the programmer say,
> "I want a ranking system, and I want the type for that system
> to have values {0, ..., 15}. Plus I need the following operations,
> ..., but not these ..., and my "-"/'Pred function should be saturating
> (if there should be operator overloading)."
>
> In this request, does the programmer need to refer to int, or uint16_t,
> or Ada's Natural, or anything for that?
>
I understand that desire. I consider that
higher-than-close-to-the-machine level of programming for, it's just
abstracting some underlying thing. I wonder if that is what Dmitry wants:
a higher level of abstraction.
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2011-08-10 19:05 ` Why use C++? Niklas Holsti
2011-08-10 22:37 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-08-10 22:49 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-08-12 4:54 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-08-11 7:54 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-08-11 8:20 ` Jed
2011-08-11 9:13 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-08-11 10:57 ` Jed
2011-08-11 11:43 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-08-12 5:07 ` Jed [this message]
2011-08-11 13:11 ` Nomen Nescio
2011-08-11 15:11 ` Paul
2011-08-12 5:15 ` Jed
2011-08-12 21:39 ` Fritz Wuehler
2011-08-14 6:52 ` Jed
2011-08-14 8:13 ` Nomen Nescio
2011-08-11 15:09 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-08-12 5:03 ` Jed
2011-08-12 8:32 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-08-12 13:15 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-08-12 22:09 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-08-12 15:14 ` Jed
2011-08-12 17:20 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-08-12 19:51 ` Jed
2011-08-12 21:22 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-08-14 7:00 ` Jed
2011-08-16 13:06 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-08-13 9:37 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-08-14 5:22 ` Jed
2011-08-13 10:27 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-08-14 5:35 ` Jed
2011-08-14 20:13 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-08-15 11:38 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-08-13 11:02 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-08-14 5:56 ` Jed
2011-08-12 9:21 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-08-12 13:26 ` Jed
2011-08-12 14:30 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-08-12 19:06 ` Jed
2011-08-12 20:05 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-08-13 7:53 ` Jed
2011-08-13 9:15 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-08-13 9:29 ` Ian Collins
2011-08-13 9:52 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-08-13 11:10 ` Ian Collins
2011-08-13 11:46 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-08-13 20:30 ` Ian Collins
2011-08-13 11:54 ` Brian Drummond
2011-08-13 13:12 ` Simon Wright
2011-08-14 11:01 ` Brian Drummond
2011-08-14 4:54 ` Jed
2011-08-14 4:35 ` Jed
2011-08-14 6:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-08-14 4:49 ` Jed
2011-08-14 6:51 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-08-14 4:29 ` Jed
2011-08-14 7:29 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-08-16 8:18 ` Nick Keighley
2011-08-16 8:47 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-08-16 9:52 ` Nick Keighley
2011-08-16 10:39 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-08-16 10:23 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-08-16 10:58 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-08-16 11:44 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-08-16 14:51 ` Bill Findlay
2011-08-16 19:13 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-08-16 19:23 ` Bill Findlay
2011-08-12 11:48 ` Stuart Redmann
2011-08-12 13:12 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-08-12 15:50 ` Stuart Redmann
2011-08-12 17:02 ` Bill Findlay
2011-08-15 12:59 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-08-12 5:02 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-08-12 5:16 ` Robert Wessel
2011-08-12 16:39 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-08-12 5:24 ` Jed
2011-08-12 6:51 ` Paavo Helde
2011-08-12 7:41 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-08-12 15:50 ` Fritz Wuehler
2011-08-12 19:59 ` Jed
2011-08-13 8:06 ` Stephen Leake
2011-08-12 9:40 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-08-12 9:45 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-08-12 10:48 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-08-12 15:56 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-08-13 8:08 ` Stephen Leake
2011-08-18 13:39 ` Louisa
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