31 May
2007
31 May
'07
9:06 p.m.
On 31 May 2007 21:52:33 +0100, Jon Fairbairn
Yes, but you didn't say that it's not only silly but demonstrates the opposite of expressiveness as it's all about breaking an abstraction and must be non-portable code (because it's definition is that it won't give the same results on different hardware), so such code should be *hard* to write in a good language.
Well, I would suggest that maybe *good* is not completely congruent with *expressive* (at least for this case). If I want to write a program to learn how IEEE floats are constructed, by destructing them, then I *should* be able to. I have no solutions of my own though :-( I wait in eager expectation.... D.