Subject:
|
Re: FW: Something else is needed, I think...
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.robotics
|
Date:
|
Wed, 5 May 1999 20:41:29 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
957 times
|
| |
|
|
stephen p spackman <stephen@acm.org> wrote:
> But suppose for instance that we were talking about a language like Java
> that has static typing. Why not put support for fixed point into the
> compiler.
This is a possibility I had not thought of, also worth thinking about more.
It certainly complicates the compiler writer's job, but aside from that it
sounds like a reasonable of doing things.
-Kekoa
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
 | | Re: FW: Something else is needed, I think...
|
| (...) But suppose for instance that we were talking about a language like Java that has static typing. Why not put support for fixed point into the compiler. It would then have ZERO impact on the runtime, not even new library routines, and still let (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
|
32 Messages in This Thread:
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
