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[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Michiel Helvensteijn wrote:
> "The compiler allows omitting type declarations only when types can be
> unambiguously inferred from context."
> 
> That's not exactly true, is it? A small non-negative integer literal could
> be an integer of any width or signedness. Yet 'int' is arbitrarily chosen
> for some reason. There are also multiple floating point types.
> 
> My points:
> * The line I quoted is incorrect. Int/float literals are not unambiguous.
> * D literals can have a suffix specifying the exact type. Perhaps that's
> worth mentioning.

Thanks for your comments, I added them to my todo list.

> I find your style of writing a bit too informal, though easy to read.

I swear I was trying to keep wit down. (I mean if I'm left to my own 
devices... "The Case for D".) One very real problem I'm now experiencing 
is that I need to literally write a doctoral thesis at day and a book at 
night. It's often difficult to handle the swing between the required 
styles. On the upside, heck, I think the dissertation will turn out to 
be one of the more readable ones :o).


Andrei