On Wednesday 06 November 2013 20:56:23 Sieghard wrote: > BTW, "float" sounds awfully C-ish to me. No "real"s any more, really? > Because there could be a "complex" datatype which has two "float" fields.
> > 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. > I do more like the <min>..<max> notation. Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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

