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Re: enhance an array's static type by a lower length-bound.

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On 20.08.2011 19:50, Lew wrote:
> Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
>> Roedy Green wrote:
>>> Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
>>>> That should/could be compiler's job.
>>> If you are the only person who has this problem, then it should
>>> definitely not be the compiler's job.  You can't put features in
>>> languages unless 99% of programmers can understand them.  That
>>> rules out quite number of esoteric ideas.
>>
>> I entirely agree with you. However, if you didn't really read the
>> first few lines of the original post, then you're probably just
>> wasting your time if you read or answer the other posts of this
>> thread. (You're of course free to do just that - namely waste your
>> time - if you're in that mood :-)
>>
>> This thread is neither about a problem to be solved, nor about a
>> serious proposal for Java - despite certain formulations (picked
>> out of the context) may make it seem like it was.
>
> Discussions like this one are incredibly valuable for the evolution
> of the Java language, and for computer languages in general.

... and probably also for the understanding of programming languages.

Cheers

	robert

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enhance an array's static type by a lower length-bound. Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-08-17 15:04 +0000
  Re: enhance an array's static type by a lower length-bound. Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-08-17 12:34 -0500
    Re: enhance an array's static type by a lower length-bound. Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-08-18 13:14 +0000
      Re: enhance an array's static type by a lower length-bound. Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-08-18 10:30 -0500
        Re: enhance an array's static type by a lower length-bound. Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-08-18 18:12 +0000
          Re: enhance an array's static type by a lower length-bound. Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-08-18 20:59 -0500
  Re: enhance an array's static type by a lower length-bound. Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-08-17 20:42 +0200
    Re: enhance an array's static type by a lower length-bound. Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-08-18 21:44 +0000
      Re: enhance an array's static type by a lower length-bound. Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-08-19 13:24 +0200
        Re: enhance an array's static type by a lower length-bound. Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-08-20 17:20 +0000
  Re: enhance an array's static type by a lower length-bound. Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-08-17 22:11 -0700
    Re: enhance an array's static type by a lower length-bound. Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-08-17 23:17 -0700
      Re: enhance an array's static type by a lower length-bound. Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-08-18 10:41 +0000
        Re: enhance an array's static type by a lower length-bound. Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-08-18 06:34 -0700
          Re: enhance an array's static type by a lower length-bound. Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-08-18 18:08 +0000
            Re: enhance an array's static type by a lower length-bound. Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-08-18 17:53 -0700
              Re: enhance an array's static type by a lower length-bound. Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-08-20 17:31 +0000
                Re: enhance an array's static type by a lower length-bound. Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-08-20 10:50 -0700
                Re: enhance an array's static type by a lower length-bound. Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-08-21 10:47 +0200
          Re: enhance an array's static type by a lower length-bound. Michal Kleczek <kleku@poczta.onet.pl> - 2011-08-21 20:27 +0200

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