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An overview of Types in Compilationby: X. Leroy
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Abstracteen integers numbers and floating-point numbers at compile-time. The main motivation for this separation, according to Fortran's designers, was to avoid the difficulties of handling mixed arithmetic at run-time [2, chapter 6]. Thanks to the type system, the compiler "knows" when to generate integer arithmetic operations, floating-point arithmetic operations, and conversions between integers and floats. ? This text is published as the introduction to the proceedings of the 1998 Types in...
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