From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,245c84afd1e393ce X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.astraweb.com!news-router2.astraweb.com!207.217.77.102.MISMATCH!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Organization: jrcarter at acm dot org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: What about big integers in Ada 2005? References: <1581461.uQ1jN63t33@linux1.krischik.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <%3h%e.5559$oc.1553@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 20:18:03 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.3.212.24 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net 1128111483 67.3.212.24 (Fri, 30 Sep 2005 13:18:03 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 13:18:03 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5317 Date: 2005-09-30T20:18:03+00:00 List-Id: 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 07