From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam@spam.com>
Subject: Re: What about big integers in Ada 2005?
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 20:18:03 GMT
Date: 2005-09-30T20:18:03+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <%3h%e.5559$oc.1553@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <wccmzlu3127.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Robert A Duff wrote:
> One annoying thing is that every Ada compiler must implement such a
> package, yet this package is not (portably) available to Ada
> programmers. Some such package has to exist in every implementation,
> because static expressions are evaluated with arbitrarily-large range at
> compile time. But that functionality is not (standardly) available at
> run time. Sigh.
Right. This is one of my problems with the Containers proposal. Vendors have to
implement a hash table (for the hashed structures) and a structure that may be
searched in O(log N) time (for the ordered structures), but they're not defined
by the language nor required to be available to users.
--
Jeff Carter
"Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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2005-09-15 17:06 What about big integers in Ada 2005? jtg
2005-09-15 17:26 ` Pascal Obry
2005-09-15 17:30 ` Martin Dowie
2005-09-15 17:26 ` Martin Krischik
2005-09-15 19:37 ` Martin Dowie
2005-09-15 21:08 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-09-15 20:33 ` jtg
2005-09-15 21:10 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-09-18 0:46 ` adaworks
2005-09-30 17:41 ` Robert A Duff
2005-09-30 20:18 ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2005-10-02 0:27 ` adaworks
[not found] ` <imsuj1h8vevg4un71rmh0nc41pnee5ihjl@4ax.com>
2005-10-02 10:33 ` Martin Krischik
2005-10-02 16:20 ` adaworks
2005-10-04 5:24 ` adaworks
2005-10-04 7:22 ` tmoran
2005-10-04 8:25 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-10-04 11:57 ` Simon Clubley
2005-10-04 16:10 ` Robert A Duff
2005-10-04 17:24 ` Simon Clubley
2005-10-04 19:44 ` Robert A Duff
2005-10-04 13:46 ` adaworks
2005-10-04 16:38 ` Robert A Duff
2005-10-04 16:52 ` Martin Dowie
2005-10-04 17:16 ` Robert A Duff
2005-10-04 13:50 ` adaworks
2005-10-04 14:59 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-10-04 16:03 ` Robert A Duff
2005-10-04 18:56 ` adaworks
2005-10-10 5:36 ` Dave Thompson
2005-10-14 0:31 ` adaworks
2005-10-06 14:21 ` Adrian Hoe
2005-10-07 6:48 ` Martin Krischik
2005-10-02 0:48 ` Brian May
2005-10-02 10:28 ` Martin Krischik
2005-10-02 10:52 ` Brian May
2005-10-02 15:12 ` Simon Wright
2005-10-02 17:11 ` Martin Dowie
2005-09-16 14:33 ` gautier_niouzes
2005-09-17 3:43 ` Craig Carey <research@ijs.co.nz>
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