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   Simon Clubley to arne@vajhoej.dk   
   Re: ISO: The Eiffel OO programming langu   
   28 Mar 25 19:02:01   
   
   From: clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP   
      
   On 2025-03-26, Arne Vajhøj  wrote:   
   >   
   > But even "plain" Ada is very good.   
   >   
   > Question: can one call a language where lower and upper bounds   
   > of integer types are given by CPU architecture and not by   
   > the problem domain for type safe?   
   >   
      
   Hmm, do you mean that the other way around ? :-)   
      
   > If the answer is no, then that eliminates a lot of languages.   
   >   
      
   Including rust, which at best only has crude package-based support   
   for this. It is not part of the language itself.   
      
   Simon.   
      
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