On Tue, 20 Feb 2018 15:23:44 +0100, Antoon Pardon wrote: >> Okay. Now create a constraint on a name in C++ such that it can only >> accept integers representing A.D. years which, on the Gregorian >> calendar, are leap years. (Using a dedicated integer-like type is >> permitted.) It must accept all multiples of four, except those which >> are multiples of one hundred, unless they're also multiples of four >> hundred. >> >> That's what Steve asked for. Can you do it? Or is the C++ type system >> not flexible enough for that? > > Steve had multiple contributions in this thread. I didn't react to the > one where he asked for that.
Yes you did: you refused to meet the challenge, stating (and I quote): "Why should this be done at compile time?" https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2018-February/730995.html -- Steve -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
