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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: A new notion: stronglly-typed-by-user language
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Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:59:33 +0200
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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
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