[bitc-dev] Primary type arithmetic

[Shawn Garbett]

--- "Jonathan S. Shapiro" <shap at eros-os.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 14:22 -0800, Shawn Garbett
> wrote:
> > How about: ring+, ring-, etc. 
> > 
> > Shawn
> 
> And then the others would be tip+, tip-, etc?
> 

I was thinking more like the following:

+, -, etc all double the word size. The static type
checker would catch any usage violating this. Then for
wrap around, aka a ring, ring+, ring- etc. Then for
exceptions on overflow or underflow, have bounded+,
bounded-, etc.

If the static type checker could give a custom message
for type violations of +, -, then the programmer could
be steered toward his possible intentions. The usage
of ring and bounded, are somewhat self-documenting.

Shawn


		
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