Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Keith Thompson Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Integral types and own type definitions (was Re: Suggested method for returning a string from a C program?) Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 13:50:43 -0700 Organization: None to speak of Lines: 32 Message-ID: <87bjtn5xek.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> References: <86o6xpk8sn.fsf@linuxsc.com> <20250325011327.41@kylheku.com> <20250325131110.000056bd@yahoo.com> <87a5987sh8.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> <871puk7kae.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> <20250326160142.000051a6@yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 21:50:48 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="469e8dc95fda8e96af14b48a4cec7ffc"; logging-data="2714274"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+z1BwznHjDqLYdiHx53vgE" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:MO680lPnGf6s8CLBeRkZQfags7c= sha1:mXsRjlaHBoI2ADkoR753mFylAOc= Richard Heathfield writes: > On 26/03/2025 20:27, David Brown wrote: >> On 26/03/2025 18:25, Richard Heathfield wrote: >>> On 26/03/2025 16:40, David Brown wrote: >>>> On 26/03/2025 15:45, Richard Heathfield wrote: >>>>> On 26/03/2025 14:01, Michael S wrote: >>>>>> But your school in UK taught you the same meaning of 'whole >>>>>> numbers' as >>>>>> James's school in US. >>>>> >>>>> What makes you think so? Mine certainly didn't. This thread was >>>>> the first time in my life I've ever encountered the rather >>>>> peculiar notion that whole numbers exclude negatives. Now that I >>>>> /have/ encountered that notion, I see no compelling reason to >>>>> endorse it. >>>> >>>> Yes, but didn't your school education predate Georg Cantor and the >>>> development of set theory?  :-) >>> >>> Sedi ad pedes Euleri, ut numeros meos discerem, integros et aliter. >>> >> If you had used the original Greek, rather than Latin, I'd have been >> /really/ impressed! > > Quidquid Latine dictum sit, altum videtur. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */