Re: Ichbiah's Letter

[Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>]

On 2014-10-26, Jacob Sparre Andersen <jacob@jacob-sparre.dk> wrote:
>
> - Decimal types:
>
>   Okay. - One place where I must admit that I only know of example
>   sources using this.
>

Can I assume you have never done any accounting work ?

> + Unsigned types:
>
>   Something I use quite a lot and find it hard to imagine managing
>   without.  Also, how would one interface with C et al. without unsigned
>   types?
>

If anything, unsigned integers should be the default integer type and
you should need to ask for a signed integer in the code. (And yes,
I know that in Ada, you just choose a data type to model the problem
at hand. This is more an annoyance of mine from other languages such
as C.)

Simon.

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