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Article #4042Re: type checking problem
From: Doug Merritt
Date: Wed, 22 May 1991 18:59
Date: Wed, 22 May 1991 18:59
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In article <1991May21.144739.23901@maths.nott.ac.uk> anw@maths.nott.ac.uk (Dr A. N. Walker) writes: > Yes, it's a nice example. I don't know of many real situations >in which the programmer may reasonably claim ignorance of both the number >and type of the parameters to a procedure. The inner loop of an interpreter: eval(func, parameters). Since interpreters are applied to zillions of different applications, not just classic languages, that's "many real situations" right there. Doug -- Doug Merritt doug@netcom.com apple!netcom!doug
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Subject: Re: type checking problem
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