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CSC321: Programming LanguagesCSC321: Programming LanguagesChapter 5: Types

5.1 Type Errors5.2 Static and Dynamic Typing5.3 Basic Types5.4 NonBasic Types5.5 Recursive Data Types5.6 Functions as Types5.7 Type Equivalence5.8 Subtypes5.9 Polymorphism and Generics5.10 Programmer-Defined Types


• A type is a collection of values and operations on those values.

• Example: Integer type has values ..., -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, ... and operations +, -, *, /, <, ...

• The Boolean type has values true and false and operations , , .

• Computer types have a finite number of values due to fixed size allocation; problematic for numeric types.

TypesTypes


• Exceptions:– Smalltalk uses unbounded fractions.– Haskell type Integer represents

unbounded integers.• Floating point problems?

– Even more problematic is fixed sized floating point numbers:

• 0.2 is not exact in binary.• So 0.2 * 5 is not exactly 1.0• Floating point is inconsistent with real numbers in

mathematics.

Type ProblemsType Problems


• In the early languages, Fortran, Algol, Cobol, all of the types were built in.

• If needed a type color, could use integers; but what does it mean to multiply two colors.

• Purpose of types in programming languages is to provide ways of effectively modeling a problem solution.

Purpose of TypesPurpose of Types


Data InterpretationData Interpretation

• Machine data carries no type information.

• Basically, just a sequence of bits.

• Example: 0100 0000 0101 1000 0000 0000 0000 0000

– The floating point number 3.375– The 32-bit integer 1,079,508,992– Two 16-bit integers 16472 and 0– Four ASCII characters: @ X NUL NUL


• A type error is any error that arises because an operation is attempted on a data type for which it is undefined.

• Type errors are common in assembly language programming.

• High level languages reduce the number of type errors.

• A type system provides a basis for detecting type errors.

Type ErrorsType Errors


Type CheckingType Checking

• A type system imposes constraints such as the values used in an addition must be numeric.

• Cannot be expressed syntactically in EBNF.

• Some languages perform type checking at compile time (e.g., C).

• Other languages (e.g., Perl) perform type checking at run time.

• Still others (e.g., Java) do both.


• A language is statically typed if the types of all variables are fixed when they are declared at compile time.

• A language is dynamically typed if the type of a variable can vary at run time depending on the value assigned.

• Can you give examples of each?

Static and Dynamic TypingStatic and Dynamic Typing


• A language is strongly typed if its type system allows all type errors in a program to be detected either at compile time or at run time.

• A strongly typed language can be either statically or dynamically typed.

• Union types are a hole in the type system of many languages.

• Most dynamically typed languages associate a type with each value.

Strongly TypingStrongly Typing


Basic TypesBasic Types• Terminology in use with current 32-bit computers:

– Nibble: 4 bits

– Byte: 8 bits

– Half-word: 16 bits

– Word: 32 bits

– Double word: 64 bits

– Quad word: 128 bits

• In most languages, the numeric types are finite in size. So a + b may overflow the finite range.– Unlike mathematics: a+(b+c)(a+b)+c

• Also in C-like languages, the equality and relational operators produce an int, not a Boolean


• An operator or function is overloaded when its meaning varies depending on the types of its operands or arguments or result.

• Java: a + b (ignoring size)– integer add

– floating point add

– string concatenation

• Mixed mode: one operand an int, the other floating point, or one string and the other int

OverloadingOverloading


• A type conversion is a narrowing conversion if the result type permits fewer bits, thus potentially losing information.

• Otherwise it is termed a widening conversion.

• Should languages ban implicit narrowing conversions? Why?

• C++/Java: – Explicit narrowing conversion– Implicit widening conversion– How?

Type ConversionType Conversion


Non-basic TypesNon-basic Types

• Enumeration:– enum day {Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday};

– enum day myDay = Wednesday;• In C/C++ the above values of this

type are 0, ..., 6.• More powerful in Java:

for (day d : day.values())

Sytem.out.println(d);


PointersPointers• C, C++, Ada, Pascal• Java???• Value is a memory address• Indirect referencing• Operator in C: *• Example: A Simple Linked List in C

struct Node {int key;struct Node* next;

};struct Node* head;


Pointer OperationsPointer Operations• If T is a type and ref T is a pointer:

& : T → ref T

* : ref T → T

• For an arbitrary variable x:*(&x) = x

• Increment/decrement

• String Copyvoid strcpy(char *p, char *q) {

while (*p++ = *q++) ;}


• Bane of reliable software development• Error-prone• Buffer overflow, memory leaks• Particularly troublesome in C

Problems with PointersProblems with Pointers

• float sum(float a[ ],int n) {int i;float s = 0.0;for (i = 0; i<n; i++) s += a[i];return s;

• }

• float sum(float *a,int n) {int i;float s = 0.0;for (i = 0; i<n; i++) s += *a++;

return s;• }


Dangling ReferencesDangling References

• A dangling reference is a pointer to storage that is being used for another purpose; typically, the storage has been deallocated

• Dangling reference may cause a program either crashing or giving the wrong results

• Dangling reference may be caused by– Deallocation operations: a storage that is being

pointed to by a pointer has been deallocated. – Procedure/function/method returns: the address of a

local variable in a procedure is returned as the return value. Consider the following situation (C/C++):


ArraysArrays• A set of elements, but different languages

have different ways to deal with arrays• Basically, an array has the following

attributes:• Data type – the type of all elements• Dimension – number of dimensions: 1-dim,

2-dim, 3-dim, etc• Range of dimensions – lower and upper

bound for each dimension• Subscripts – index. Most languages use

integer, but others such as Pascal/Ada allow any discrete types


Arrays LayoutArrays Layout

• 1-dim array: consecutive locations• High-dim array:

– Row-major layout: consecutive locations arranged row by rowe.g. a[3][3]: a[0,0], a[0,1], a[0,2], a[1,0], a[1,1], a[1,2], a[2,0], a[2,1], a[2,2]

– Column-major layout: arranged column by columne.g. a[3][3]: a[0,0], a[1,0], a[2,0], a[0,1], a[1,1], a[2,1], a[0,2], a[1,2], a[2,2]


Arrays Arrays Element Accessing Element Accessing

• Element notation:– C/C++, Java, Algol: a[i][j][k]– Pascal: a[i, j, k]– Fortran: a(i, j, k), same as a function.

Actually, Fortran treats accessing array elements as performing function evaluation

• Pointer accessing:– C/C++ can use pointers to access array

elements


• Equivalence between arrays and pointers: a = &a[0]

• If either e1 or e2 is type: ref T: e1[e2]=*((e1)+(e2))

• Example: a is float[ ] and i int: a[i] = *(a + i)– double a[16];– double *b;– b = &a[0]; // assign the base address of a to b– b++; // move b to the next location: a[1]– b + i; // move b to the next i-th location: a[i+1]

Arrays and PointersArrays and Pointers


• Index computation: Loc• Assume: base – the location of the first element

low – the lower boundupp – the upper boundw – the length of one element

• 1-dim: Loc(a[i]) = base + w*(i-low) = (base – low *w) + i*w = c + i*w, where c = base – low*w is a constant

• 2-dim: Loc(a[i,j]) = base + w*[ r*(i-low1) + (j-low2) ]= base - w*( r*low1 + low2) + w*(r*i + j)

where r = the number of rows above a[i,j], which is (upp2-low2 + 1)

3-dim: Loc(a[i,j,k]) = base + w*[r2*(r1*(i-low1) + (j-low2)) + (k-low3)]where r1 = (upp2-low2+1), r2 = (upp3-low3+1) ??

Arrays Arrays IndexingIndexing


• Name-size binding – bound evaluation: how many storage

cells should be allocated to an array

• Static binding – static evaluation: fixed size, determined at compile time, allocated at load time

– Advantages: easy; efficient

– Disadvantages: inflexible, waste storage

• Dynamic binding – dynamic evaluation: changeable size, determined at run time, allocated dynamically

– E.g. Java: Declare: double a[];

Create: a = new double[10];

a = new double[15];

• Extendable arrays: APL, SNOBOL, Perl

– Java also has a kind of extendable array: Vector v = new Vector(5);

Arrays Arrays BindingBinding


• Semi-dynamic binding – evaluation upon procedure entry: Ada, Pascal, C/C++, Java– The size (range of dimension) is a parameter.– Once the parameter is determined, the array size is fixed

E.g. C/C++: double fun(int n) { double a[n]; …}

Ada: declare

m, n: Integer;

begin

declare

type Matrix is array(Integer range<>,

Integer range<>) of Real;

a: Matrix(1..m, 1..n);

begin … end

…end

Arrays Arrays BindingBinding


• Some languages treat array as object/package, and maintain its attributes– E.g. Java: length --- a.length the size of a– Ada: range: a’range

Lower bound: a’first

Upper bound: a’last

• With these attributes, when an array is passed as a parameter, do not need to specify the number of elements in the array

• However, some languages have to specify the length as a parameter– E.g. in C, array is passed by reference (call-by-reference) and does

not have the length attribute.

Array AttributesArray Attributes


StringsStrings

• A special kind of array Now so fundamental, directly supported.

• In C, a string is a 1D array with the string value terminated by a NUL character (value = 0).

• In Java, Perl, Python, a string variable can hold an unbounded number of characters.

• Libraries of string operations and functions.– Comparison, selection of substring, searching, matching

(Most languages)– Replacement, appending, substring deletion (SNOBOL) – Concatenation: produce a new string– Java: String (static) and StringBuffer (dynamic)


Structures/RecordsStructures/Records• Composed from simpler data items

• Each data item (field) has a name

• Data items may have different types (recall array, all elements must be in the same type)

• Access to fields mostly uses .(dot) expression

C/C++:

struct Date {

int day;

int month;

int year;

}

C: struct Date adate;

C++: Date adate;

Access: adate.day

Pascal:

type Date =

record

day: Integer;

month: Integer;

year: Integer;

end

var adate: Date;

Access: adate.day


Structures/RecordsStructures/Records• The order of fields in the record has no effect

on the meaning

• When a variable of record is declared, it is allocated storage

• Record assignment is to assign all fields in a record

• Collection of elements of different types

• Used first in Cobol, PL/I

• Absent from Fortran, Algol 60

• Common to Pascal-like, C-like languages

• Omitted from Java as redundant


Comparison of Arrays and RecordsComparison of Arrays and Records

• Component: all elements in an array have the same type, while components (fields) of a record may be different

• Access: array elements are accessed by subscripts and element locations are determine at run time, while record components are accessed by dot expression and component names are determined at compile time

• Assignment: array assignment is to assign the base location, while record assignment is to assign all components


UnionsUnions• C: union

• Pascal: case-variant record

• Logically: multiple views of same storage

• Useful in some systems applications

type union =record

case b : boolean oftrue : (i :

integer);false : (r : real);

end;var tagged : union;begin tagged :=

(b => false, r => 3.375);put(tagged.i); -- error

end


class Value extends Expression { // Value = int intValue | boolean

boolValue Type type; int intValue; boolean boolValue; Value(int i) { intValue = i; type = new Type(Type.INTEGER);

}Value(boolean b) { boolValue = b;

type = new Type(Type.BOOLEAN); }}

Simulated union typeSimulated union type


Recursive Data TypeRecursive Data Type

• Type definition refers to another type that refers to the current type definition

• E.g. type link = cell; // refer to cell

type cell = record

data: integer;

next: link; // refer to link

end;


Dynamic Data TypeDynamic Data Type

• With dynamic data structures, you can not only operate on the data items in the structure, but also change the structure

• Usually constructed with static data structures (such as arrays and records) and pointers

• E.g. Linked lists, Trees• The basic components of these structures are

records that contain pointers: nodes. Usually, each node has two parts: data items, and links (pointers/references)


Functions as TypesFunctions as Types• Pascal example:

– function newton(a, b: real; function f: real): real;

– Know that f returns a real value, but the arguments to f are unspecified.

• Java example• public interface RootSolvable {• double valueAt(double x);• }• public double Newton(double a, double b, RootSolvable f);


Type Names and EquivalenceType Names and Equivalence

• Type names – Each type may or may not have a name,

such as int, Integer, Char, etc. are type names; while array [0..9] of integer is an anonymous type.Name equivalence

• Type equivalence– Name equivalence– Structural equivalence


Type Name EquivalenceType Name Equivalence

• Name equivalence: have the same name type• Pure name equivalence: exactly same name• Transitive name equivalence:

– if S is equivalent to T which is equivalent to U, then S is equivalent to U

• Type expression equivalence: – A type name is equivalent to itself. – Two type expressions are equivalent if they are

formed by applying the same constructor to equivalent expressions.


Type Structural EquivalenceType Structural Equivalence• Two type expressions are structurally equivalent if and

only if they are equivalent under the following three rules– A type name is structurally equivalent to itself– Two types are structurally equivalent if they are formed by

applying the same type constructor to structurally equivalent types

– After a type declaration, type n = T, the type name n is structurally equivalent to T

• Examples– integer is structurally equivalent to integer– Types S and T are structurally equivalent if they are declared as

• type S = array [0..9] of integer;• type T = array [0..9] of integer;

– Types S and integer are structurally equivalent if S is declared as: type S = integer;


struct complex { float re, im; };struct polar { float x, y; };struct { float re, im;} a, b;

struct complex c, d; struct polar e;int f[5], g[10];which are equivalent types: a, b, c, d, e, f, g?

Type EquivalenceType Equivalence


• Pascal uses name equivalence, but ambiguous.

• Modula-2 (the successor of Pascal) defines two types S and T to be compatible if– S and T are the same name, or– S = T is a type declaration: type S = T; or type T

= S; or– One is a subrange of the other; or– Both are subranges of the same basic types

• C uses structural equivalence for all types except records (struct)

Type Equivalence ImplementationsType Equivalence Implementations


SubtypesSubtypes• A subtype is a type that has certain constraints

placed on its values or operations.• In Ada subtypes can be directly specified.subtype one_to_ten is Integer range 1 .. 10;type Day is (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,

Friday, Saturday, Sunday);subtype Weekend is Day range Saturday .. Sunday;type Salary is delta 0.01 digits 9 range 0.00 .. 9_999_999.99;subtype Author_Salary is Salary digits 5 range 0.0 .. 999.99;Integer i = new Integer(3);...Number v = i;...Integer x = (Integer) v;//Integer is a subclass of Number,// and therefore a subtype


Polymorphism and GenericsPolymorphism and Generics

• A function or operation is polymorphic if it can be applied to any one of several related types and achieve the same result.

• An advantage of polymorphism is that it enables code reuse.


PolymorphismPolymorphism

• Comes from Greek, and means having many forms

• Example: overloaded built-in operators and functions+ - * / == != ...

– Ada, C++: define + - ... for new types

– Java overloaded methods: number or type of parameters

• Example: class PrintStream

print, println defined for:

boolean, char, int, long, float, double, char[ ]

String, Object

– Java: + also used for string concatenation

– Java: instance variable, method: e.g., name, name( )


GenericsGenerics

• Ada generics: generic sort (Figs. 5.10 and 5.11)– parametric polymorphism– type binding delayed from code

implementation to compile time– procedure sort is new generic_sort(integer);

• Java generic classes

• C/C++ templates


Programmer-defined TypesProgrammer-defined Types

• Recall the definition of a type:– A set of values and a set of operations on

those values.

• Structures allow a definition of a representation

• Problems:– Representation is not hidden– Type operations cannot be defined

• Solutions: ADT – Abstract Data Types

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