On Sep 28, 12:19 pm, Tim Bradshaw wrote:
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> There are several existing systems which do this. The HP48 (and
> descendants I expect) support "units" which are essentially dimensions.
> I don't remember if it signals errors for incoherent dimensions.
> Mathematica also has some units support, a
On Sep 27, 9:29 pm, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
wrote:
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> On the other hand, with the dynamic typing mindset, you might even wrap
> your values (of whatever numerical type) in a symbolic expression
> mentionning the unit and perhaps other meta data, so that when the other
> modu
On Sep 27, 7:46 pm, namekuseijin wrote:
> On 27 set, 05:46, TheFlyingDutchman wrote:
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> Fact is: almost all user data from the external words comes into
> programs as strings. No typesystem or compiler handles this fact all
> that graceful...- Hide quoted text -
>
You're right. C should have a
On Aug 19, 2:14 pm, spinoza wrote:
> All the rest [how to implement heaps] is
> detail for the little techies to normally, get wrong.
>
That's a fundamental feature of structured programming.
If we maintain the interface malloc(), realloc(), and free(), then we
could have a fairly simple or a
On Aug 16, 3:14 pm, spinoza wrote:
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> To build an explicit stack in this program would have been folly, for
> it would have been necessary to either preallocate the stack and thus
> legislate the maximum complexity of source code, or use a lot of
> memory management in the pre-existing runtim
On Aug 16, 10:20 am, Standish P wrote:
> [Q] How far can stack [LIFO] solve do automatic garbage collection and
> prevent memory leak ?
>
Most programs can be written so that most of their memory allocations
are matched by destructors at the same level.
However the allocations that can't be writt
