[OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type

[Marko Rauhamaa]

Michael Torrie <torriem at gmail.com>:

> You have no intention of being impressed with C++, let alone simply
> learn about it.

I am fully open to being impressed. I have more than a decade of C++
programming under my belt, although not much for the past few years.

> There's no possible way for the compiler to know the arity of
> the function without you telling it (how else would you do it?

Somehow, C# manages it just fine.

> I honestly want to know.).

See

  <URL: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa288459%28v=vs.71%29.aspx>

> That you would find this fact to be incredulous suggests that you have
> very little understanding of compilers in general. Python being a
> dynamic, interpreted language can examine a function at runtime.

C# does it at compile-time. C++ could have and should have introduced
delegates early on. The method pointer syntax was screaming for delegate
semantics. Too bad that didn't occur to Stroustrup until it was too
late.

> I'm a little unclear as to why you're even bringing up the comparison
> with C++. What's your point? To feel superior?

I really don't understand why you are taking all of this so personally.
We are just discussing different aspects of different programming
languages.


Marko