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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Min/Max attribute makes promises it can't keep
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 00:17:05 +0200
Date: 2010-04-29T00:17:02+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1p28brlj9yc3k$.1nv0ey1aadvoi$.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: hra82e$i18$1@munin.nbi.dk

On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:07:24 -0500, Randy Brukardt wrote:

> As for the initial concern about giving a subtype name, in the case of 
> literals you have to give one somewhere (since a literal can be of many 
> different types, and the results can vary depending on the type used -- not 
> for 'Length, but for 'Last and most other properties).

No problem, Ada supports overloading in the result type. E.g. abs (-1) is
OK.

(I have an impression that many weird Ada rules rooted in an attempt to
express them at the grammar level.)

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



  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-28 22:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-27 19:34 Min/Max attribute makes promises it can't keep Alex Mentis
2010-04-27 20:20 ` Martin
2010-04-27 21:16   ` Robert A Duff
2010-04-27 22:46     ` Randy Brukardt
2010-04-28 10:36     ` Alex Mentis
2010-04-28 10:58       ` AdaMagica
2010-04-28 11:37         ` Gautier write-only
2010-04-28 11:47           ` AdaMagica
2010-04-28 13:28             ` Martin
2010-04-28 13:41             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-04-28 14:10               ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-04-28 14:53                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-04-28 21:07                   ` Randy Brukardt
2010-04-28 22:17                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2010-05-01  5:42                       ` Randy Brukardt
2010-05-01  6:28                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-04-29  4:41                     ` AdaMagica
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