Re: Easy question about Character manipulation

On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:18:34 -0500, Robert A Duff wrote:

[...]
I claim that we're just arguing over
terminology: saying "so-and-so are different types, but there are all
kinds of implicit conversions" amounts to roughly the same thing as
"so-and-so are the same type".

As for terminology, I'd propose to call the latter "subtypes" and the
former "unrelated types."

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