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From: Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: 'Base
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 20:11:54 +0100
Date: 2005-12-08T20:11:54+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2038690.eAzdaEvAON@linux1.krischik.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1134055303.758950.308680@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com

ada_student@yahoo.com wrote:

> What information does this attribute provide that cannot be specified
> using other Ada attributes?

I don't know an attribute to replace 'Base. Which Attributes where you
thinking about.

> Why use an expression style to return a type? Is this because of
> the presence of parameterized types(i.e. generics) in Ada?

You can use 'Base wherever you use a Type. e.E.:

X : Natural'Base := -1;

The 'Base if Natural is Integer. It can be helpfull in generics but the use
of 'Base is not restricted to them.

Read:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Subtypes

Martin
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-12-08 19:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-08 15:21 'Base ada_student
2005-12-08 18:08 ` 'Base Matthew Heaney
2005-12-08 18:44   ` 'Base Martin Dowie
2005-12-08 18:49     ` 'Base Martin Dowie
2005-12-08 19:24     ` 'Base Matthew Heaney
2005-12-08 20:27       ` 'Base Martin Dowie
2005-12-08 19:51     ` 'Base Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-12-08 20:07       ` 'Base Matthew Heaney
2005-12-09  2:57         ` 'Base Randy Brukardt
2005-12-09  2:13   ` Avoiding constraint checks w/ 'Base Anonymous Coward
2005-12-09  3:11     ` Randy Brukardt
2005-12-09 13:11   ` 'Base krischik
2005-12-09 13:52     ` 'Base Matthew Heaney
2005-12-09 20:42       ` 'Base Randy Brukardt
2005-12-08 19:11 ` Martin Krischik [this message]
2005-12-09 20:42   ` 'Base ada_student
2005-12-09 21:39     ` 'Base Pascal Obry
2005-12-10  3:30     ` 'Base Matthew Heaney
2005-12-10 14:50       ` 'Base ada_student
2005-12-10  7:52     ` 'Base Martin Krischik
2005-12-10 12:55       ` 'Base Larry Kilgallen
2005-12-10 13:37         ` 'Base Björn Persson
2005-12-11 11:00           ` 'Base Martin Krischik
2005-12-10 15:01         ` 'Base Robert A Duff
2005-12-11 10:59         ` 'Base Martin Krischik
2005-12-12  9:14       ` 'Base Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2005-12-12 19:08         ` 'Base Martin Krischik
2005-12-13 19:24           ` 'Base tmoran
2005-12-13 21:00         ` 'Base Georg Bauhaus
2005-12-14 19:43         ` 'Base Per Sandberg
2005-12-15 20:08           ` 'Base Martin Krischik
2005-12-16 19:19             ` 'Base Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-12-17  7:52               ` 'Base Martin Krischik
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