Summary: strong/weak typing and pointers
Carl Banks
imbosol at aerojockey.com
Mon Nov 8 15:05:00 EST 2004
Greg Ewing <greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote in message news:<2v82u3F2dhtcpU1 at uni-berlin.de>...
> Carl Banks wrote:
> > I recommend we stop using "weak/strong typing" as a technical term,
> > and leave it to be a meaningless buzzword for the ignorant peasantry.
>
> How about:
>
> solid typing -- sharp boundaries between types, few
> automatic coercions
>
> fluid typing -- lots of automatic coercions
Very nice. I bow to your metaphorical creativity.
> (Don't ask me what "gaseous typing" might mean...)
Compiler builds a directed graphs of type conversions and always
chooses the shortest path.
actually-gases-are-fluids-too-ly yr's,
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CARL BANKS
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