[M3devel] quick question for the Modula-3 ether... LONGFLOAT??

[Jay]

1) I'm sure it is a natural term to all the other programmers, easy mistake to make.

 

2) There in fact this natural need to come up with alternate names.

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.

 

In that vein there are some public m3core modules for dealing with floats/reals/whatever and they might use names like this.

 

 - Jay


 
> To: m3devel at elegosoft.com
> Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 13:05:49 -0700
> From: mika at async.caltech.edu
> Subject: [M3devel] quick question for the Modula-3 ether... LONGFLOAT??
> 
> 
> Does anyone out there have any idea why a lot of bits of Modula-3
> refer to something called "LONGFLOAT" or "LongFloat". I just checked
> Wirth, and Modula-2 used "REAL" as well so it doesn't seem like
> LONGREAL would ever have been called "LONGFLOAT".
> 
> Is LONGFLOAT/LongFloat of any significance or is it OK to
> search-and-replace it away with LONGREAL/LongReal everywhere?
> 
> (I'm talking about things like the emacs macro package as well as
> all over m3tk...)
> 
> Mika
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