Re: style Q: type .. is new String;

[Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>]

tmoran@acm.org writes:

> Though I create new types regularly for numeric variables, 

Me, too.

>...I've only
> rarely used other than the standard String type.  That saves doing type
> conversions, but it would be nice to have strong type checking help me
> detect errors.  Do other folks use new String types a lot and find it
> works out well?

Only rarely.  For example, I have a message template type, which is a
string, but wants some stuff "filled in" at run time.  Otherwise, a
String is a String.  Integers, on the other hand, "measure" different
things -- it's useful to have the index of this-array be a different
type from the index of that-array.

- Bob