Walter Bright: > Joel C. Salomon: > > To avoid this class of bug, you need a simple way to declare what the > > acceptable values for a variable are. > > Languages have had this capability, but it never caught on. People found > it just too tedious.
What? We use ranges of integers in Delphi at work today :-) I have even proposed something similar for D twice in the past. (But to be precise, I often don't use ranged integral numbers for the purpose discussed here). Bye, bearophile
