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[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

Thu, 19 Oct 2000 16:25:02 +1300 (NZDT), Tom Pledger <Tom.Pledger@peace.com> pisze:

> A language extension for subtyping would be of some use there.  For
> example, if Int is set up as a subtype of Integer, meaning that an Int
> value is acceptable anywhere an Integer value is expected (with the
> typechecker inserting the conversion code), the literal 42 can
> unambiguously be assigned the type Int.

This disallows literals of a non-standard type Int8. Not good.

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