Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.dougwise.org!nntpfeed.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!74.125.46.80.MISMATCH!postnews.google.com!e20g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: lewbloch Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Arithmetic overflow checking Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:36:52 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 23 Message-ID: <1f3f067f-1753-4f6b-876d-19f92059d9b8@e20g2000prf.googlegroups.com> References: <015aeb15-57db-48ab-9cd4-77f8448b632f@w24g2000yqw.googlegroups.com> <2rydnez7l-H5BYnTnZ2dnUVZ_vGdnZ2d@earthlink.com> <4e278a67$0$309$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <1SSVp.69032$_I7.18660@newsfe08.iad> <4e2892f1$0$309$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.6.6.6 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1311367012 29111 127.0.0.1 (22 Jul 2011 20:36:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 20:36:52 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: e20g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=127.6.6.6; posting-account=CP-lKQoAAAAGtB5diOuGlDQk0jIwmH0T User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true X-Google-Header-Order: ASELCHRU X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/13.0.782.99 Safari/535.1,gzip(gfe) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:6415 On Jul 22, 10:33=A0am, Andreas Leitgeb wrote: > Patricia Shanahan wrote: > > After all, it is no worse than "ADD 1 TO AGREECOUNT GIVING AGREECOUNT."= . > > All Rejoice! There's still a language (like COBOL) that makes simple > expressions more verbose. =A0That really should keep us all happy about > Java. =A0(NOT!) > > [about lack of operator overloading for non-primitive arithmetic types] > > > The problem is not just the keystrokes for typing the expressions. > > It is very important to be able to check that a lengthy expression > > in a program is a correct translation of the corresponding expression, > > in mathematical notation, in a textbook or paper. > > Lew? Yes? -- Lew