Summary: strong/weak typing and pointers
Tim Hoffman
timh at zute.net
Tue Nov 9 01:09:53 EST 2004
Greg Ewing wrote:
> JCM wrote:
>
>> I think both liquids and gases are considered fluids. Liquid Typing
>> and Gaseous Typing would be sub-categories.
>
>
> Hmmm. So maybe with liquid typing, your data sloshes
> around in the bottom of your address space, whereas
> with gaseous typing, it expands to fill all available
> memory...
>
Continuing in this theme, does this mean that phase transition (between
solids and fluids ) typing, is typing of an indeterminate nature ;-)
Oops now that we are on the slippery slope of metaphors ;-) do we class
super cooled liquid types as ones that can be co-oerced but just take a
very long time ;-)
Tim
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