On 2008-12-05 02:53:11 +0100, Sergey Gromov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:54:32 -0800, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Fawzi Mohamed wrote:
On 2008-12-01 22:30:54 +0100, Walter Bright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
Fawzi Mohamed wrote:
On 2008-12-01 21:16:58 +0100, Walter Bright
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
I'm very excited about polysemy. It's entirely original to D,
I accused Andrei of making up the word 'polysemy', but it turns out
it is a real word! <g>
Is this the beginning of discriminating overloads also based on the
return values?
No. I think return type overloading looks good in trivial cases, but
as things get more complex it gets inscrutable.
I agreee that return type overloading can go very bad, but a little bit
can be very nice.
Polysemy make more expressions typecheck, but I am not sure that I want
that.
For example with size_t & co I would amost always want a stronger
typechecking, as if size_t would be a typedef, but with the usual rules
wrt to ptr_diff, size_t,... (i.e. not cast between them).
This because mixing size_t with int, or long is almost always
suspicious, but you might see it only on the other platform (32/64 bit),
and not on you own.
Something that I would find nice on the other hand is to have a kind of
integer literals that automatically cast to the type that makes more sense.
Wouldn't value range propagation take care of that (and actually more)?
A literal such as 5 will have a support range [5, 5] which provides
enough information to compute the best type down the road.
It sounds very nice and right, except it's incompatible with Cee.
Well, you can safely reduce bit count so that assigning "1025 & 15" to
"byte" would go without both a cast and a warning/error. But you cannot
grow bitcount beyond the C limits, that is, you cannot return long for
"1024 << 30." You should probably report an error, and you should
provide some way to tell the compiler, "i mean it."
In the worst case, any shift, multiplication or addition will result in
a compiler error. Do I miss something?
well what I would like to have is 1024 << 30 to be acceptable as long
as it is then stored in a long.
With Polysemy I am not sure about what the result should be.
Fawzi
