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From: Ioannis Vranos <ivr@remove.this.grad.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 08:35:22 +0200
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Ioannis Vranos wrote:

> Actually the Boost type that you are probably looking for is:
> 
> 
> "uint_value_t: The smallest built-in unsigned integral type that 
> supports the given value as a maximum. The parameter should be a 
> positive number."



So the example becomes:

#include <boost/integer.hpp>


int main()
{
     using namespace boost;

     // Value range 0..16
     uint_value_t<16>::least my_var;

     my_var= 9;
}



> This is the equivalent of 0..whatever.
> 
> 
> Myself thinks though that this whole range specialisation thing is 
> non-sense for regular application programming at least.


Indeed. :-)



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Ioannis Vranos

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