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[Axiom-developer] Re: .spad, .input, .as and autocoercion
From: |
Gabriel Dos Reis |
Subject: |
[Axiom-developer] Re: .spad, .input, .as and autocoercion |
Date: |
Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:28:49 -0500 (CDT) |
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Martin Rubey wrote:
| > Currently, to translate from interpreter language to compiler language, one
| > needs a combination of ")show," ")display," ")set mess bottom on," ")set
| > message auto on," and hyperdoc searches to identify packages and
| > coercions. This process is repeated every time there is a compiler
| > complaint. This is time that could be spent for documentation instead.
|
| Try using Aldor!
I tried. And many other language that take a, I would say "military",
approach to the issue. Not everything works the same for everybody.
I constantly found that requiring explicit conversions was more of distraction
than help -- that does NOT mean I do not know the problems with implicit
conversions. I perfectly understand the arguments for requiring
everything to be written explicitly.
Even Aldor permits some coercions -- sorry, they are called
"courtesy conversions".
-- Gaby
- Re: [Aldor-l] [Axiom-developer] "has" and "with" (was curious algebra failure), (continued)
- Re: [Aldor-l] [Axiom-developer] "has" and "with" (was curious algebrafailure), Martin Rubey, 2007/08/16
- Re: [Aldor-l] [Axiom-developer] "has" and "with" (was curious algebrafailure), William Sit, 2007/08/16
- [Axiom-developer] .spad, .input, .as and autocoercion, Ralf Hemmecke, 2007/08/16
- [Axiom-developer] Re: .spad, .input, .as and autocoercion, Gabriel Dos Reis, 2007/08/16
- [Axiom-developer] Re: .spad, .input, .as and autocoercion, William Sit, 2007/08/16
- [Axiom-developer] Re: .spad, .input, .as and autocoercion, Martin Rubey, 2007/08/16
- [Axiom-developer] Re: .spad, .input, .as and autocoercion,
Gabriel Dos Reis <=
- [Axiom-developer] Re: .spad, .input, .as and autocoercion, Martin Rubey, 2007/08/16
- [Axiom-developer] Re: .spad, .input, .as and autocoercion, Gabriel Dos Reis, 2007/08/16
- Re: [Axiom-developer] "has" and "with" (was curious algebra failure), Ralf Hemmecke, 2007/08/13
- Re: [Axiom-developer] "has" and "with" (was curious algebra failure), Ralf Hemmecke, 2007/08/13
- Re: [Axiom-developer] "has" and "with" (was curious algebra failure), Bill Page, 2007/08/13
- Re: [Axiom-developer] "has" and "with" (was curious algebra failure), Ralf Hemmecke, 2007/08/14
- Re: [Axiom-developer] "has" and "with" (was curious algebra failure), William Sit, 2007/08/12
- Re: [Axiom-developer] "has" and "with" (was curious algebra failure), Bill Page, 2007/08/12
- Re: [Axiom-developer] A curious algebra failure, Martin Rubey, 2007/08/12
- Re: [Axiom-developer] A curious algebra failure, Gabriel Dos Reis, 2007/08/12