From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f7a6385d57e1fb5b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-02 09:08:03 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.mesh.ad.jp!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison Sender: usenet@www.newsranger.com References: Subject: Re: Bitwise operators Message-ID: <1r1y6.372$UK4.36089@www.newsranger.com> Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 16:05:17 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.208.22.130 X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com X-Trace: www.newsranger.com 986227517 209.208.22.130 (Mon, 02 Apr 2001 12:05:17 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 12:05:17 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:6355 Date: 2001-04-02T16:05:17+00:00 List-Id: In article , Robert A Duff says... >Ted Dennison writes: > >>... Admittedly, the "proper" LRM term for this is "signed >> integer type", but bringing up strict LRM terminology in a beginner >> thread is only going to confuse the reader. > >Sorry for all this nitpicking. But I really don't agree that beginners >should be taught the wrong terminology. It will only confuse them when >they try to read something about Ada (the RM or a text book). That's fine, if its is adequately explained for the beginner. My worry is that the original poster, who was clearly an Ada neophyte, is going to see someone authoratatively say "you can use boolean ops on integers", quite reasonably go out and try just that with something of type "Integer", and then get frustrated when the compiler says they can't do that. If we tick them off in the early stages, they won't hang around long enough to ever look in the LRM. :-) --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com