From: "Robert G. Brown" <rgb@phy.duke.edu>
To: Jonathan Underwood <jonathan.underwood@gmail.com>
Cc: gsl-discuss@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: containers tentative design summary
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:41:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0911151339330.2690@lilith> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <645d17210911150843h7034c341yb453d3fb3f3fb8cf@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> I think it would be better if GSL, being written in C, were to
> present the most functional interface at the expense of sacrificing
> type safety, and higher level language bindings could then wrap that
> API and do type checking as needed. As gerard says, C isn't about type
> safety.
I agree. A good C programmer is comfortable with casts and knows
perfectly well that it is up to them to track them. And the compiler
(give a chance) will usually at least warn you about apparent
inconsistency.
rgb
>
> Jonathan
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-15 18:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-03 19:44 Gerard Jungman
2009-11-09 20:41 ` Brian Gough
2009-11-09 23:06 ` Gerard Jungman
2009-11-14 15:25 ` Brian Gough
2009-11-15 9:13 ` Tuomo Keskitalo
2009-11-15 16:44 ` Jonathan Underwood
2009-11-15 18:41 ` Robert G. Brown [this message]
2009-11-16 11:56 ` Brian Gough
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2009-11-20 9:37 Justin Lenzo
2009-10-05 10:12 Gerard Jungman
2009-10-05 14:50 ` James Bergstra
2009-10-05 23:00 ` Gerard Jungman
2009-10-05 23:45 ` James Bergstra
2009-10-06 19:59 ` Gerard Jungman
[not found] ` <645d17210910060537s762d6323pfd2bec8590ad28e9@mail.gmail.com>
2009-10-06 20:02 ` Gerard Jungman
2009-10-23 21:28 ` Brian Gough
2009-10-27 23:06 ` Gerard Jungman
[not found] ` <7f1eaee30910271628h70785125m68e47c7a7b5c25b7@mail.gmail.com>
2009-10-27 23:49 ` Gerard Jungman
2009-10-29 18:06 ` Brian Gough
2009-10-29 20:41 ` Gerard Jungman
2009-10-29 21:40 ` James Bergstra
2009-10-30 16:54 ` Brian Gough
2009-10-30 16:54 ` Brian Gough
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