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| From | Ben <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c++ |
| Subject | Re: C++ (and some C) quiz questions |
| Date | 2022-05-17 00:34 +0100 |
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Paavo Helde <eesnimi@osa.pri.ee> writes:
> 16.05.2022 23:09 Christian Gollwitzer kirjutas:
>> BTW, in old C when the types were omitted, it was implicit int. How
>> about "implicit auto" for today? That way, one could write
>> x = 0.1L;
>> or
>> f(x, y) {
>> return 3*x+y;
>> }
>> to get a templated function with type inference and get closer to modern
>> languages?
>
> You mean sloppy languages, not modern. At the same time, these sloppy
> languages are currently trying to move closer to strictly typed
> languages, as - surprise-surprise - sloppy code is not so easy to
> maintain. That's why you can now write e.g. in Python things like
I doubt CG was referring to Python since it does no type inference. He
may be thinking of languages like Haskell that are strongly typed but
include very effective type inference.
Of course I don't think C++ can or should go down that route, but that's
another issue.
> def headline(text: str, align: bool = True) -> str:
--
Ben.
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Re: C++ (and some C) quiz questions Paavo Helde <eesnimi@osa.pri.ee> - 2022-05-16 17:35 +0300
Re: C++ (and some C) quiz questions Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2022-05-16 16:13 +0000
Re: C++ (and some C) quiz questions Andrey Tarasevich <andreytarasevich@hotmail.com> - 2022-05-16 10:49 -0700
Re: C++ (and some C) quiz questions Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2022-05-16 20:02 +0200
Re: C++ (and some C) quiz questions "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach@gmail.com> - 2022-05-16 20:51 +0200
Re: C++ (and some C) quiz questions Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2022-05-16 20:59 +0200
Re: C++ (and some C) quiz questions Manfred <noname@add.invalid> - 2022-05-16 21:55 +0200
Re: C++ (and some C) quiz questions Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2022-05-16 22:09 +0200
Re: C++ (and some C) quiz questions Andrey Tarasevich <andreytarasevich@hotmail.com> - 2022-05-16 13:47 -0700
Re: C++ (and some C) quiz questions Ben <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2022-05-16 22:19 +0100
Re: C++ (and some C) quiz questions Andrey Tarasevich <andreytarasevich@hotmail.com> - 2022-05-16 14:52 -0700
Re: C++ (and some C) quiz questions Ben <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2022-05-16 22:57 +0100
Re: C++ (and some C) quiz questions Paavo Helde <eesnimi@osa.pri.ee> - 2022-05-17 00:54 +0300
Re: C++ (and some C) quiz questions Ben <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2022-05-17 00:34 +0100
Re: C++ (and some C) quiz questions Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2022-05-17 08:24 +0200
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Re: C++ (and some C) quiz questions Ben <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2022-05-17 11:06 +0100
Re: C++ (and some C) quiz questions Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2022-05-17 04:41 +0000
Re: C++ (and some C) quiz questions Ben <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2022-05-17 11:12 +0100
Re: C++ (and some C) quiz questions Paavo Helde <eesnimi@osa.pri.ee> - 2022-05-17 14:37 +0300
Re: C++ (and some C) quiz questions Ben <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2022-05-17 14:31 +0100
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Re: C++ (and some C) quiz questions Paavo Helde <eesnimi@osa.pri.ee> - 2022-05-18 17:37 +0300
Re: C++ (and some C) quiz questions Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2022-05-19 14:43 +0000
Re: C++ (and some C) quiz questions Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2022-05-19 08:21 -0700
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