C strongly typed?

Richard O'keefe ok at goanna.oz.au
Fri Mar 9 10:14:38 AEST 1990


In article <5880 at crdgw1.crd.ge.com>,
rimvallm at jupiter.crd.ge.com (Magnus Rimvall) writes:
> In article <2963 at goanna.oz.au> you write:
> >	declare
> >	    subtype apple  is integer;
> >	    subtype orange is integer;

> Obviously, you either know very little about Ada or you deliberately
> try to misinform the reader.

Those are fighting words.  I shall reply in kind:
surely you either know very little about C or you are being deliberately
insulting.

The point is that I *do* understand Ada well enough to show CORRECTLY
what the Ada equivalent of the C fragment in question is.  Rimvall's
suggested version using NEW is *not* expressible in C *nor* in Pascal.
What I was saying is that the C typedef
	typedef int apple;
is the equivalent of
	subtype apple is integer;
How does this count as ignorance or misinformation?



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