What is a type error?
Chris Smith
cdsmith at twu.net
Tue Jul 11 00:05:33 EDT 2006
David Hopwood <david.nospam.hopwood at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Maybe I'm not understanding what you mean by "complete". Of course any
> type system of this expressive power will be incomplete (whether or not
> it can express conditions 3 to 5), in the sense that it cannot prove all
> true assertions about the types of expressions.
Ah. I meant complete enough to accomplish the goal in this subthread,
which was to ensure that the compiler knows when a particular int
variable is guaranteed to be greater than 18, and when it is not.
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Chris Smith - Lead Software Developer / Technical Trainer
MindIQ Corporation
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