On Thursday 14 November 2013 21:39:05 Sieghard wrote: > > 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)"? > No, max (or another keyword) denotes "maximum of the value with the given bit count". max -> boolean 0 to max -> cardinal smin to smax -> integer (or -max to max) ;-) #max -> character
> > 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. > You reacted exactly as I thought. :-) Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
