Hallo Martin, Du schriebst am Thu, 14 Nov 2013 08:12:45 +0100:
> The range could default to the maximum of the bit size: ... What an awkward syntax. My suggestion: don't. > I don't like it. Thank you. > Or with reserved words: You would have to devise a way to do the calculations, and you might even get forced to provide a way to request the actual values - how could you do this if the values depend on some unspecified type? Use something like "max (boolty)" or "min (l)"? > I don't like it, especially the "smin" "smax". We can't write "-max to > max" because Sieghard will read it. ;-) That's _not_ a reason, a reason you cannot use "-max to max" is that signed integers (using 2's complement representation as usual nowadays) don't have a symmetric range: a 16-bit integer ranges fron -32768 to 32767, or in hex notation -$8000 to $7FFF. It _will_ be necessary to define separate limits for both ends of the range, if you want to be safe. Or you might rely on the fact that the absolute value of the negative limit always is greater by 1 than the positive limit, i.e. "-(max+ 1) to max". Not neat, I think. -- -- (Weitergabe von Adressdaten, Telefonnummern u.ä. ohne Zustimmung nicht gestattet, ebenso Zusendung von Werbung oder ähnlichem) ----------------------------------------------------------- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, S. Schicktanz ----------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DreamFactory - Open Source REST & JSON Services for HTML5 & Native Apps OAuth, Users, Roles, SQL, NoSQL, BLOB Storage and External API Access Free app hosting. Or install the open source package on any LAMP server. Sign up and see examples for AngularJS, jQuery, Sencha Touch and Native! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=63469471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ mseide-msegui-talk mailing list mseide-msegui-talk@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mseide-msegui-talk
