Sujet : Re: Integral types and own type definitions (was Re: Suggested method for returning a string from a C program?)
De : Keith.S.Thompson+u (at) *nospam* gmail.com (Keith Thompson)
Groupes : comp.lang.cDate : 26. Mar 2025, 10:59:37
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David Brown <
david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:
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Sure. But most people have forgotten such details long ago - negative
numbers are not part of daily life (except as an indicator of how much
you owe the bank...). After all, negative numbers are not natural!
Most people understand credits and debits.
So if you ask someone random "Do you know what an integer is?", a
likely response will be "That's a whole number, isn't it? Like 1, 2
or 3 - not something like a half."
I suspect that most people who would use the word "integer" without
being prompted would use it correctly.
[...]
-- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.comvoid Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */