[M3devel] another longint variant

[Tony Hosking]

Hear, hear!

On 9 Jan 2010, at 19:25, Mika Nystrom wrote:

> Jay K writes:
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>>> I believe Rodney said something like "mixed operations follow from assig=
>> nability"=3B
>>> and from a language point of view=2C that may be true=2C just not from t=
>> he point of view=3B
>> 
>> I meant to say=2C not from the language implementation point of view.
>> 
>> Again=2C if I can assign and then add=2C might as well just allow add?
>> Ditto assign and index=2C assign and multiply=2C etc.
>> 
> 
> The problem is that it's sometimes ambiguous what the result type is.
> 
> If you want to get into this kind of mess, why don't you just program in C...
> 
> I think this area is probably one of the reasons some people *like* Modula-3.
> We don't want to have to guess what an expression means... it should be obvious.
> If there are "promotion rules" it's just not that obvious.  I'm reminded of one
> time when I was missing a prototype in a C program.............. ok that story
> could go on and on.
> 
>    Mika

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