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Benjamin Franksen <[email protected]> · Mon, 21 Feb 2005 21:39:27 +0100

On Monday 21 February 2005 17:36, Marty Kraimer wrote:
> Benjamin Franksen wrote:
> >(1) I don't think type BOOL is needed. We can use a MENU instead, e.g.
> >
> >menu(menuBool) {
> >    choice(menuBoolFalse,"False")
> >    choice(menuBoolTrue,"True")
> >}
>
> Perhaps bool is such a fundamental data type that we should support it?

Yes, definitely. I just don't see why it must be supported as a *basic* data 
type.

I could imagine other menu (or union) definitions, besides bool, that should 
be included in some sort of standard or 'built-in' library of dbd types. We 
have that even in V3, see the dozen or so menuXXX types that get compiled 
into the core. Maybe in form of a 'module' that gets imported implicitly.

(It might turn out to be profitable to provide optimized implementations for 
some 'standard library' types, but this shouldn't worry us yet.)

Ben

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Experimental Physics and
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