Re: Re: Why put type information into syntax?

Hi,


        I think there is another reason for built in types. Some language
features rely on them, for example, in C the expression in an
if-statement / while-statement etc. must be coercable to int. Now, if
there was no built-in int type, what rule can you have for that? This
is even more relevant for languages with a builtin boolean type, where
the if-condition-expression must be boolean. So we see that some
builtin types not only make the gammar "easy to specify" but are in
fact necessary.


- Srineet.


----- Original Message -----
> > Does anyone know of any reasons why built-in type names should be
> > incorporated in the syntax of a language. ...

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