On Sep 27, 7:46 pm, namekuseijin namekusei...@gmail.com wrote:
On 27 set, 05:46, TheFlyingDutchman zzbba...@aol.com wrote:
Fact is: almost all user data from the external words comes into
programs as strings. No typesystem or compiler handles this fact all
that graceful...- Hide quoted text
On Sep 27, 9:29 pm, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
wrote:
On the other hand, with the dynamic typing mindset, you might even wrap
your values (of whatever numerical type) in a symbolic expression
mentionning the unit and perhaps other meta data, so that when the other
module
On Sep 28, 12:19 pm, Tim Bradshaw t...@tfeb.org wrote:
There are several existing systems which do this. The HP48 (and
descendants I expect) support units which are essentially dimensions.
I don't remember if it signals errors for incoherent dimensions.
Mathematica also has some units
On Aug 19, 2:14 pm, spinoza spinoza1...@yahoo.com wrote:
All the rest [how to implement heaps] is
detail for the little techies to normally, get wrong.
That's a fundamental feature of structured programming.
If we maintain the interface malloc(), realloc(), and free(), then we
could have a
On Aug 16, 10:20 am, Standish P stnd...@gmail.com wrote:
[Q] How far can stack [LIFO] solve do automatic garbage collection and
prevent memory leak ?
Most programs can be written so that most of their memory allocations
are matched by destructors at the same level.
However the allocations that
On Aug 16, 3:14 pm, spinoza spinoza1...@yahoo.com wrote:
To build an explicit stack in this program would have been folly, for
it would have been necessary to either preallocate the stack and thus
legislate the maximum complexity of source code, or use a lot of
memory management in the
