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1) I'm sure it is a natural term to all the other programmers, easy mistake to make.<BR>
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2) There in fact this natural need to come up with alternate names.<BR>
You know, if you read the compiler and runtime source, you see things called Type and/or Tipe, not just Type, because Type (or at least TYPE) is already a reserved word if you write "metacode" dealing with types, you can't use that name.<BR>
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In that vein there are some public m3core modules for dealing with floats/reals/whatever and they might use names like this.<BR>
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- Jay<BR><BR><BR> <BR>> To: m3devel@elegosoft.com<BR>> Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 13:05:49 -0700<BR>> From: mika@async.caltech.edu<BR>> Subject: [M3devel] quick question for the Modula-3 ether... LONGFLOAT??<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Does anyone out there have any idea why a lot of bits of Modula-3<BR>> refer to something called "LONGFLOAT" or "LongFloat". I just checked<BR>> Wirth, and Modula-2 used "REAL" as well so it doesn't seem like<BR>> LONGREAL would ever have been called "LONGFLOAT".<BR>> <BR>> Is LONGFLOAT/LongFloat of any significance or is it OK to<BR>> search-and-replace it away with LONGREAL/LongReal everywhere?<BR>> <BR>> (I'm talking about things like the emacs macro package as well as<BR>> all over m3tk...)<BR>> <BR>> Mika<BR></body>
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