Walter Bright wrote:
bearophile wrote:
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).
I didn't mean nobody liked them or used them. I mean they have not
caught on, despite having been around for 3 decades at least.
Integer ranges are closely related to contract programming.
