On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Martin Rubey wrote: | > Currently, to translate from interpreter language to compiler language, one | > needs a combination of ")show," ")display," ")set mess bottom on," ")set | > message auto on," and hyperdoc searches to identify packages and | > coercions. This process is repeated every time there is a compiler | > complaint. This is time that could be spent for documentation instead. | | Try using Aldor!
I tried. And many other language that take a, I would say "military", approach to the issue. Not everything works the same for everybody. I constantly found that requiring explicit conversions was more of distraction than help -- that does NOT mean I do not know the problems with implicit conversions. I perfectly understand the arguments for requiring everything to be written explicitly. Even Aldor permits some coercions -- sorry, they are called "courtesy conversions". -- Gaby _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
