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Subject: Re: Your wish list for Ada 202X
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Date: 2014-04-03T12:11:01-07:00
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On Thursday, April 3, 2014 12:18:37 PM UTC-5, Pascal Obry wrote:
> Le mercredi 02 avril 2014 =E0 23:27 -0700, Jeffrey Carter a =E9crit :=20
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> > On 04/02/2014 10:51 PM, Pascal Obry wrote:
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> > > But again this is doable today in Ada (even 1983) with a library and
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> > > proper overriding of the operators.
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> > Well, no. Unbounded_Integer would work like any other integer type. You=
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> > have to convert literals or named numbers:
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> > I : Unbounded_Integer :=3D 1E1000;
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> Ok, some little annoyance indeed.
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> In the same vein, something that is annoying is to have to create record
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> for returning multiple values from a function. I would rather like to
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> have support for tuple.
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>    A, B : Integer;
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>    function MyName return (Integer, Integer);
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> And then be able to write:
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>    (A, B) :=3D (9, 12);
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> or
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>    (A, B) :=3D MyName;
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> Today you need to create a record just for that.
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> --=20
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>   Pascal Obry /  Magny Les Hameaux (78)
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>   The best way to travel is by means of imagination
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>   http://v2p.fr.eu.org
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>   http://www.obry.net
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