Re: extending the type system

2003-10-14 Thread Edward A Lee
Bertram: Absence of a value (something that I think a null for a double is intended to indicate) is a key property of a model of computation. I'm not sure that representing it in a data type is a good approach. In particular, a key property of process networks and dataflow is that absence is not

extending the type system

2003-10-13 Thread Chad Berkley
Hello, We have a question about the extensibility of the Ptolemy II type system. In our project, we need to extend the type system by adding new data types and modifying the type hierarchy. As an example, we need to incorporate a new double type (as a superclass of double) that accepts null, or