Re: OODL: Goofball OT question

[DeRobertis]

At 12:03 AM -0400 on 7/18/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
><<I'm going to try to compile egcs on the Mac... I've gotten tired of certain
>things, like MrCpp bugs for example.>>
>
>Let me know if you succeed. I downloaded the sources to browse myself
>sometime soon.

Well, I've got a nice 166.7MB folder here... Ak! That's _big_. And I mean
_real_ big.

>
><<I would have different types:
>
>       auto -- default. Behaves like variables in HyperTalk. Converts as
>               needed Slow.
>
>       integer -- long int type in C
>       real    -- double type in C
>
>       etc.>>
>
>I agree. Any serious work needs to have some real types available... I
>It would be nice to have the best of both worlds.

I'd focus first on the typed world. So long as one can autoconvert between
types, it should not be too bad.