The Standard / Re: Problems With Typ - (nf)
jim at ism780b.UUCP
jim at ism780b.UUCP
Thu Aug 2 14:17:18 AEST 1984
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ism780b!jim Jul 17 21:43:00 1984
> Dennis talked about this a bit at the Usenix session. What he said was
> roughly like this: "I had a choice of two ways to put enums in. One was
> to make them first-class citizens, so that one could do things like
> defining arrays with enum subscripts and so forth. The other was to
> fudge them in as a restricted form of integer. I did it the easy but
> ugly way, and made them restricted integers."
Had Dennis dealt with his semantics in a more formal fashion, he would have
realized that his choices were to make them full class citizens or to
make them *un*restricted integers. I sure wish he had bitten the bullet
and added subranges and arrays with range types, but I can understand
(but not condone) his reluctance to do so.
-- Jim Balter, INTERACTIVE Systems (ima!jim)
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