Summary: strong/weak typing and pointers

[Carl Banks]

Greg Ewing <greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote in message news:<2v82u3F2dhtcpU1 at uni-berlin.de>...
> Carl Banks wrote:
> > I recommend we stop using "weak/strong typing" as a technical term,
> > and leave it to be a meaningless buzzword for the ignorant peasantry.
> 
> How about:
> 
>     solid typing -- sharp boundaries between types, few
>                     automatic coercions
> 
>     fluid typing -- lots of automatic coercions

Very nice.  I bow to your metaphorical creativity.


> (Don't ask me what "gaseous typing" might mean...)

Compiler builds a directed graphs of type conversions and always
chooses the shortest path.


actually-gases-are-fluids-too-ly yr's,
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CARL BANKS