Baffled by Benchmark
06-Dec-87 17:10:24
Sb: #96974-Baffled by Benchmark
Fm: John Draper 76703,4322
To: Richard Rae/SYSOP 76703,4253
Rick,
I did not mention untyped languages, but the principle is the same. A string
is a data type in an untyped language just as much as it is in say, BASIC or
COMAL. It's just that it's a string when you treat it as a string, and
something elsewhen you don't.
Why would _I_ want a specific data type? Well, it beats the heck out of
having to treat it as another data type and write rotuines to handle it as if
it were really the type I wanted in the first place.
Regards, Larry.