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From: Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: Is it really Ok to assert that the Ada syntax is a context-free grammar ?
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:20:38 +0100
Date: 2008-02-21T20:20:38+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <21497899.Y65aT544dH@linux1.krischik.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: vi_uj.42453$yE1.41991@attbi_s21

Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:

> Martin Krischik wrote:
>  >
>> Not quite, if you consider "type cast" is a unchecked bit pattern copy -
>> so if you define:
>> 
>> function X is new Unchecked_Conversion (...);
>> 
>> the X would indeed be a it "type cast".
> 
> No, "type cast" is not defined for Ada. What you have described is an
> unchecked type conversion.

"Rot" and "Rouge" are not defined in the English language either but that
does not mean the colour at the lower end of the spectrum is not defined in
English. Actually it is - it's called "Red".

Martin
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-21 19:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-20  0:47 Is it really Ok to assert that the Ada syntax is a context-free grammar ? Hibou57
2008-02-20  2:06 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-02-20 10:05   ` Martin Krischik
2008-02-20 10:34     ` Ludovic Brenta
2008-02-20 11:13       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-02-22  8:57         ` Stephen Leake
2008-02-22 10:44           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-02-20 14:22       ` Hibou57
2008-02-20 15:19         ` Niklas Holsti
2008-02-20 18:34           ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2008-02-20 19:10             ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2008-02-21  0:39               ` Randy Brukardt
2008-02-21  0:56                 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2008-02-21 22:19                   ` Randy Brukardt
2008-02-21 22:19                   ` Randy Brukardt
2008-02-21 23:54                     ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2008-02-22 19:51                       ` Randy Brukardt
2008-02-23 18:13                         ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2008-02-20 20:22             ` Niklas Holsti
2008-02-20 21:38             ` Manuel Collado
2008-02-21  0:30               ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2008-02-20 20:51         ` Robert A Duff
2008-02-21 19:24       ` Martin Krischik
2008-02-22 20:17         ` Simon Wright
2008-02-25 21:47           ` Samuel Tardieu
2008-02-23 19:02         ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-02-20 18:27     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-02-21 19:20       ` Martin Krischik [this message]
2008-02-21 21:31         ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-02-20  5:53 ` Niklas Holsti
2008-02-20 16:43 ` Adam Beneschan
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