20 Sep
2005
20 Sep
'05
4:55 p.m.
Mark Carter wrote:
OTOH, I think Charles Moore is quoted as saying that if he want to add 1 to the letter A, then he didn't want the programming language to stop him. Which is quite a contrast to Haskell and its notions on safety. I'm not flamebaiting, you understand, I'm just pointing out the various viewpoints to the argument.
I agree with Charles Moore, if I take his statement to mean that I should be able to add 1 to the bit pattern for the letter A (in some encoding) and the interpret that as a character again. But I would not want the conversions to be implicit (unless the letter A is defined to be the same as an integer, as it is in C). -- Lennart