From: "Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Pred
Date: 1998/01/24
Date: 1998-01-24T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01bd291d$11de1780$35f882c1@xhv46.dial.pipex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: JRNnTAAOCmy0EwYL@dowie-cs.demon.co.uk
In Ada 83 Pred could only be applied to discrete types, but in Ada 95 it
can be applied to all scalar types. For fixed-point types, it denotes a
function which returns the value one machine number smaller than the
argument.
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Martin M Dowie <martin@dowie-cs.demon.co.uk> wrote in article
<JRNnTAAOCmy0EwYL@dowie-cs.demon.co.uk>...
> 'Pred on a float? shurely shome mishtake...
>
> how about something like -
>
> subtype A_Heading is Ownship_Heading_Base range 0.0 .. 360.0;
>
> subtype Ownship_Heading is A_Heading
> range A_Heading'first .. A_Heading'Last - A_Heading'Small;
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-01-07 0:00 Two simple language questions Chip Richards
1998-01-07 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1998-01-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-07 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-10 0:00 ` Two simple language questions (plural types) Michael F Brenner
1998-01-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-10 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-12 0:00 ` Anonymous
1998-01-12 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-12 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-12 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-13 0:00 ` Distinguishing type names from other identifiers Nick Roberts
1998-01-13 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-14 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1998-01-24 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-15 0:00 ` Anonymous
1998-01-24 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-24 0:00 ` Martin M Dowie
1998-01-24 0:00 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
1998-01-25 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-24 0:00 ` Martin M Dowie
1998-01-15 0:00 ` Aaro Koskinen
1998-01-17 0:00 ` Martin M Dowie
1998-01-17 0:00 ` Martin M Dowie
1998-01-25 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-25 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
[not found] ` <n5rs5FAStOz0Ew2+@dowie-cs.demon.co.uk>
1998-01-26 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-27 0:00 ` Martin M Dowie
1998-01-27 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-27 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-29 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-30 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Martin M Dowie
1998-01-11 0:00 ` Two simple language questions (plural types) Brian Rogoff
1998-01-07 0:00 ` Two simple language questions Tucker Taft
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