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That's what type systems are for ;-) (Score:1)

by Adrian (66)

Assuming that we understood that "pnt" represented a Point and "prm" represented a Prime, we might get the idea that adding them might be useless.

I'd much rather use a language where I can sensibly declare points and primes as different types and get a nice compile time or runtime error if I try and add them.
Getting humans to do things that compilers can do seems counterproductive now we have the chance to use vaguely decent languages ;-)
- Re:That's what type systems are for ;-) (Score:2)
  
  by ziggy (25) on 2005.06.17 9:01 (#41250) Journal
  
  I'd much rather use a language where I can sensibly declare points and primes as different types and get a nice compile time or runtime error if I try and add them.
  
  I'd much rather use a language that handles these kinds of strict typing issues for me and provides sensible error messages when a type error is found. ;-)
  (Yes, I'm using Haskell these days. And whenever I haven't seen a type error in a couple of days, it takes a while to figure out what ghc is trying to tell me.)
  
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