Re: [PATCHES] Re: ORBit2, IDL compiler improvements

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Michael Rumpf wrote:

> 7. libIDL is matching const float x = 1;
>    This is illegal, because const_type is float and literal is an integer!

1 can be interpreted as either a float or an integer - although I suppose
if libIDL is interpreting it as an integer in that context, that would be
broken.

>    But worse, you can even write const float x = "test"; !!!!!

OK, *that* is broken. :)

> So, more patches are likely to follow... ;-)

Please send these patches and future ones in unified diff format. This can
be accomplished by doing:

	echo diff -ub >> ~/.cvsrc

Thanks,
-- Elliot
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