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=3.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, RATWARE_MS_HASH,RATWARE_OUTLOOK_NONAME autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4b862d91ff93feff X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Nick Roberts" Subject: Re: Text_IO for other standard types Date: 1998/01/16 Message-ID: <01bd22ba$08013440$5cfd82c1@xhv46.dial.pipex.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 316633539 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <98011512220569@psavax.pwfl.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Organization: UUNet UK server (post doesn't reflect views of UUNet UK) Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-01-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: I think the answer may be that the modular types defined in the Interfaces package do not tell anyone which type corresponds to the most natural modular type for the target machine (e.g. because of the machine's bus width or CPU register size), as the type Integer is assumed to do for integer types. There are occasions when knowing such a 'natural' modular type would be helpful (e.g. programming 'bignums'); the provision of an appropriate predefined modular type would therefore be genuinely helpful. -- Nick Roberts Croydon, UK Proprietor, ThoughtWing Software; Independent Software Development Consultant * Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com * Voicemail & Fax +44 181-405 1124 * *** Eats three shredded spams every morning for breakfast *** Robert Dewar wrote in article ... > What is wrong with the predefined modular types that are in the language > now (see Interfaces). I assume it is clear why you would just as soon > not have these types in Standard!