On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 01:33 PM, Dave Whipp wrote:
Yeah, I threw that one in because it demonstrated a similar case of using properties to represent "hints" that could be optimized at a very primitive level, not because the last example itself necessarily represents an explicit C type. Sorry for the ambiguity there...my int $a is range(1000..1255) is unchecked; # auto-infer 8bitJust to clarify: I think of the latter (C<range>) for efficient packing into arrays (e.g. a 5-bit range can be packed efficiently, even though there is no 5-bit c-type): binding to C routines is probably best done explicity.The C<unchecked> property would enable performance optimizations. Checked-ranges probably catch a few more bugs, though.
MikeL
