From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: A new notion: stronglly-typed-by-user language
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:59:33 +0200
Date: 2010-04-15T11:59:30+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <kp1ujewxuj6n$.18tptcsjjzw3d.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: hq6kht$kgl$1@news.eternal-september.org
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:59:37 +0200, J-P. Rosen wrote:
> While preparing the upcomming "Using Object Oriented Technologies in
> Secure Systems" tutorial for Ada-Europe (plug, plug...), I came across
> this beautiful statement (OOTiA, B.1.1.6):
>
> "C++ is a strongly typed language, if conversions between logically
> unrelated types are avoided".
>
> Ain't that cute?
Well, strong typing is unrelated to type conversions, so the sentence above
is nonsense. Actually, *logically* (meaning semantically) unrelated types
can be mixed without any conversions:
int ArrayIndex;
int EmployeeID;
Employee_ID = Arraj_Index:
The question is whether a strongly typed language is designed in order to
support and encourage mapping logically unrelated entities onto physically
unrelated types or not. Ada more or less is, C++ more or less is not.
--
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-15 8:59 A new notion: stronglly-typed-by-user language J-P. Rosen
2010-04-15 9:19 ` Martin Krischik
2010-04-16 0:22 ` BrianG
2010-04-16 6:26 ` Martin Krischik
2010-04-15 9:59 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2010-04-15 10:49 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-04-15 21:31 ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-04-16 7:28 ` J-P. Rosen
2010-04-16 7:48 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-04-16 15:32 ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-04-16 16:52 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-04-16 17:24 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-04-16 20:53 ` Pascal Obry
2010-04-16 21:51 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-04-16 20:20 ` J-P. Rosen
2010-04-16 20:50 ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-04-17 5:25 ` J-P. Rosen
2010-04-17 7:00 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-04-17 11:40 ` J-P. Rosen
2010-04-17 14:09 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-04-17 14:33 ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-04-17 18:57 ` J-P. Rosen
2010-04-17 22:02 ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-04-18 8:04 ` J-P. Rosen
2010-04-18 20:17 ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-04-16 7:29 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-04-16 10:34 ` xavier grave
2010-04-16 19:26 ` Gautier write-only
2010-04-18 0:27 ` Gene
2010-04-18 20:38 ` Gautier write-only
2010-04-19 8:46 ` Maciej Sobczak
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