Hallo Martin, Du schriebst am Wed, 6 Nov 2013 08:55:35 +0100:
> The numeric system types will have a fix size: As is commonly done. > bool1, bool8, bool16, bool32 A lot of wasted space... but you're really brave providing a packed boolean. > uint8, uint16, uint32, uint64 > sint8, sint16, sint32, sint64 You might consider a type able to accept a full IPv6 address, as that's going to be used heavily in the near future. > float32, float64 No float80? But the "extended" reals are gone from intel FPUs either, indeed. BTW, "float" sounds awfully C-ish to me. No "real"s any more, really? > char8, char16, char32 I.e. ASCIIchar/ANSIchar, UCS2char/UTF16char, UTF32char? > Opinions? You might consider to have a look at FORTRAN's type system, which provides a convenient notation for specifying the size of a variable or type. And its advantage is that it's _not_ restricted in advance. And above that: what about sets & strings? Enumerations? Index ranges and types? Case selectors? (Did I miss something else? Ahja, subfield types like in C, for packed records of small integer values, useful for register modifications of hardware elements, e.g. And of course, complex numbers...) BTW, a nice implementation of strings was done by some implementations of the ISO Extended Pascal standard compiler. -- -- (Weitergabe von Adressdaten, Telefonnummern u.ä. ohne Zustimmung nicht gestattet, ebenso Zusendung von Werbung oder ähnlichem) ----------------------------------------------------------- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, S. Schicktanz ----------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ November Webinars for C, C++, Fortran Developers Accelerate application performance with scalable programming models. Explore techniques for threading, error checking, porting, and tuning. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60136231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ mseide-msegui-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mseide-msegui-talk
