John Nagle wrote: > The Pascal/Ada/Modula family of languages all had type systems > with restrictions on conversion. Unlike C, types in Pascal > are not simply abbreviations of the type; they're unique types.
Ada is the only one of those that would let you define things like "a new kind of integer" that is not compatible with other integers. Pascal and Modula just had a fixed set of numeric types with various predefined compatibility rules, not much different from C. -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
