From: scleary_at_[hidden]
Date: 2000-01-06 08:22:49
> >
> > Then I divided these numeric types into three sources:
> > standard - those types specifically required by the Standard
> > extension - those types provided as a compiler extension
> > user-supplied - those types that specialize std::numeric_limits
> > And created the following categories:
> > standard - any numeric type of standard source
> > extension - any numeric type of extension source (NOT standard)
> > builtin (= standard + extension)
> > {no name} - the default includes all sources
>
> Just curious, what's the purpose of this set of categories?
>
The main reason I put this here is so that library code can distinguish
between builtin numeric types and classes. I also distinguished between
compiler extensions and C++ language definitions -- I just figured this
might be useful in the future.
-Steve