From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Subject: Re: casting types
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 11:11:22 -0700
Date: 2014-10-01T11:11:22-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m0hg4b$bao$2@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <75969a22-d7f7-4517-9d10-6224beb3318c@googlegroups.com>
On 10/01/2014 06:55 AM, Stribor40 wrote:
> Is there any other data type?
In Ada, the question shouldn't be "Is there any other data type?" (or "Which
language-defined type should I use?"), but rather "What type should I declare
for these values?" Ada is unique among mainstream languages in allowing the
developer to declare numeric types that reflect the problem domain, and
McCormick found this to be part of the most important reason ("Modeling of
scalar objects") why his students succeeded with Ada.
http://www.crosstalkonline.org/storage/issue-archives/2000/200008/200008-McCormick.pdf
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-01 1:49 casting types Stribor40
2014-10-01 2:06 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-10-01 2:13 ` Stribor40
2014-10-01 2:56 ` Stribor40
2014-10-01 13:18 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2014-10-01 13:55 ` Stribor40
2014-10-01 14:23 ` G.B.
2014-10-01 17:16 ` Stribor40
2014-10-01 17:38 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2014-10-02 1:47 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2014-10-01 18:11 ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
2014-10-02 9:21 ` Brian Drummond
2014-10-02 9:24 ` Brian Drummond
2014-10-03 3:35 ` Stribor40
2014-10-03 7:45 ` Björn Lundin
2014-10-03 8:29 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2014-10-06 23:36 ` brbarkstrom
2014-10-07 0:03 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-10-07 0:21 ` brbarkstrom
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