Howard Hinnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| Another possible spelling for this animal is: | | class nat {nat();}; | | Inspired from nan. In this case means Not A Type.
Ahem, a class is a type, no matter how you name it.
Really, I didn't know that! :-)
And a nan is still a floating point number. It just has a special bit pattern that alters the arithmetic rules a bit.
| It is nice and | short which comes in handy for when there are a lot of template | parameters to default. It is easily pronounceable, and won't be | confused with any other type when discussed verbally.
Really? Without reading the rest of your message, I thought it was a short for "natural number". A matter of background I guess.
I'll go back to the drawing board. Of all the people that I thought might appreciate the analogy, you were at the top of my list. :-)
-Howard
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