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Subject: Re: Question of Visibility
Date: 7 Jul 93 21:07:08 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1993Jul7.210708.5853@news.eng.convex.com> (raw)
In article <C9t9Ly.EML@inmet.camb.inmet.com> stt@spock.camb.inmet.com (Tucker T
aft) writes:
>>The user has a large body of code interfacing to a FORTRAN library. FORTRAN
>>requires .TRUE. = ~.FALSE. in a bit-wise way. They wanted to change the
>>meaning of BOOLEAN throughout their entire source by introducing the type
>>into one of the root packages, and not having to edit any of the other code.
>
>I would recommend that your user just rename "boolean" to "bool" or
>"f77_bool" or equivalent.
Actually, the solution they finally accepted was to put
subtype boolean is boolean_pkg.boolean;
in the units where the type was necessary.
--
Boris Pelakh Ada Project Leader pelakh@convex.com
Convex Computer Corporation
"If winning isn't important, why keep score ?" -- Lt. Worf, Star Trek TNG.
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1993-07-07 21:07 Bor is Pelakh [this message]
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1993-07-08 14:21 Question of Visibility Gene Ouye
1993-07-08 12:17 Wes Groleau X7574
1993-07-07 21:15 Dave Bashford
1993-07-07 20:15 Tucker Taft
1993-07-02 14:53 agate!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!The-Star.honeywell.com!cs0.dasd.h
1993-07-02 13:36 Boris Pelakh
1993-07-01 21:44 Gene Ouye
1993-07-01 18:39 Boris Pelakh
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