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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: private types
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 10:20:38 +0100
Date: 2006-03-18T10:20:35+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <140itbbkmjj04.l8k1gxu1jrc7.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: FJHSf.1898$TK2.497@trnddc07

On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 23:36:05 GMT, Justin Gombos wrote:

> BTW- I sometimes have a use for creating an abnormal object, and find
>      Ada lacking in not providing such a mechanism.  I'm sometimes
>      forced to either include abnormal values in the set of values
>      declared for a type, or to have a seperate flag.  Both of these
>      are messy.  Why not have a 'invalid function added to Ada to
>      enable simple and explicit initialization of abnormal objects?

As Randy have pointed out, there is a great difference between faults and
bugs. If we stay in the realm of correct programs, then the mechanism you
are asking for is subtyping. One can exclude some values by putting a
subtype constraint on the base type.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de



  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-03-18  9:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 93+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-13 19:58 private types ada_student
2006-03-13 20:27 ` Mark Lorenzen
2006-03-13 21:05   ` Pascal Obry
2006-03-13 21:07   ` ada_student
2006-03-13 21:45     ` Simon Wright
2006-03-14  4:51 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-03-14  7:44   ` Brian May
2006-03-14  8:25     ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-03-14  8:47     ` Alex R. Mosteo
2006-03-17  4:33     ` Justin Gombos
2006-03-17  5:17       ` Brian May
2006-03-17 22:50         ` Justin Gombos
2006-03-18  1:17         ` Randy Brukardt
2006-03-18  2:17           ` Justin Gombos
2006-03-21  0:08             ` Randy Brukardt
2006-03-18  8:39           ` Uninitialized variables (was: Re: private types) Dirk Craeynest
2006-03-18 14:06             ` Gautier
2006-03-18 14:36               ` Uninitialized variables Jeffrey Creem
2006-03-21  0:22             ` Uninitialized variables (was: Re: private types) Randy Brukardt
2006-03-21  0:38             ` Randy Brukardt
2006-03-18 12:06           ` private types Martin Dowie
2006-03-18 12:47           ` Robert A Duff
2006-03-17  7:40       ` Maciej Sobczak
2006-03-17 16:41         ` Frank J. Lhota
2006-03-17 23:36         ` Justin Gombos
2006-03-18  1:32           ` Randy Brukardt
2006-03-18  3:21             ` Handling invalid objects Justin Gombos
2006-03-18  7:35               ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-03-18 16:10                 ` Justin Gombos
2006-03-19 11:00                   ` Simon Wright
2006-03-20 23:57                   ` Randy Brukardt
2006-03-22  2:06                     ` Justin Gombos
2006-03-22  5:23                       ` tmoran
2006-03-22  8:48                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-03-22  9:24                           ` Maciej Sobczak
2006-03-22 11:05                             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-03-22 16:42                               ` Maciej Sobczak
2006-03-22 18:06                                 ` Stefan Lucks
2006-03-23 13:20                                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-03-18  8:57               ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2006-03-19 19:07                 ` Dr. Adrian Wrigley
2006-03-20 15:25                   ` Robert A Duff
2006-03-19 22:06               ` Brian May
2006-03-20 21:17                 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-03-20 23:44               ` Randy Brukardt
2006-03-22  1:27                 ` Justin Gombos
2006-03-18  9:20           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2006-03-17 13:18       ` private types Robert A Duff
2006-03-17 23:44         ` Justin Gombos
2006-03-18  9:24           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-03-18 12:56           ` Robert A Duff
2006-03-18 15:06             ` Justin Gombos
2006-03-19  9:35               ` Martin Krischik
2006-03-19 14:52                 ` Peter C. Chapin
2006-03-19 15:08                   ` Björn Persson
2006-03-19 16:34                     ` Martin Krischik
2006-03-20  9:57                       ` Maciej Sobczak
2006-03-20 10:58                         ` Peter C. Chapin
2006-03-20 11:19                           ` Peter C. Chapin
2006-03-20 13:06                           ` Maciej Sobczak
2006-03-20 15:19                         ` Robert A Duff
2006-03-20 16:47                           ` James Dennett
2006-03-20 19:12                         ` Martin Krischik
2006-03-21  7:27                           ` Maciej Sobczak
2006-03-20 19:32                         ` Martin Krischik
2006-03-21  7:41                           ` Maciej Sobczak
2006-03-20 20:29                       ` Simon Wright
2006-03-19 17:43                     ` Larry Kilgallen
2006-03-19 22:11                     ` Peter C. Chapin
2006-03-19 18:15                 ` Robert A Duff
2006-03-19 19:20                   ` Martin Krischik
2006-03-19 20:43                     ` Dr. Adrian Wrigley
2006-03-20 15:01                       ` Robert A Duff
2006-03-27  4:07                       ` Dave Thompson
2006-03-20  9:40                     ` Maciej Sobczak
2006-03-20 15:09                       ` Robert A Duff
2006-03-21  8:07                         ` Maciej Sobczak
2006-03-26 18:53                           ` Robert A Duff
2006-03-19 19:27                 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-03-25 21:40               ` Robert A Duff
2006-03-26  0:10                 ` Justin Gombos
2006-03-26  1:00                   ` Robert A Duff
2006-03-26  6:37                     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-03-26 15:43                       ` Justin Gombos
2006-03-26 16:32                         ` Robert A Duff
2006-03-26 16:51                       ` Robert A Duff
2006-03-26 19:41                         ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-03-26  3:15                 ` Frank J. Lhota
2006-03-26 18:28                   ` Robert A Duff
2006-03-26 19:43                     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-03-26 19:59                     ` Simon Wright
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1999-07-28  0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1999-07-28  0:00   ` Thomas Hood
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