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From: markb@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Mark Biggar)
Newsgroups: net.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Questions about Ada
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Date: Wed, 5-Feb-86 13:13:52 EST
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In article <2608@sdcrdcf.UUCP> steve@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Steven Holtsberg) writes:
>(1) In the reference manual, on page 8-10, it says that overloading
>is defined for subprograms, enumeration literals, operators, and single entries
>
>However, I do not know what "single entries" are, and I cannot
>find a definition in the manual.
>
>Does anyone know the definition of a "single entry"?

I took this to mean that a tasks entires can be overloaded independently
and not as a group.

>(2) On page 3-20 of the reference manual, the canonical form for
>any floating point number other than zero is given as
>
>sign * mantissa * (radix ** exponent)
>
>My question:  Why is radix given as a parameter?
>Isn't the radix, by definition, two?

NO, the radix of a floating constant is programmer specifiably.
The default for a constant like 1.3E-3 is radix 10, but if you say

        constant                value

        16#E.0#E1               14*(16**1)=224.0
        2#1.1111_1111_111#E11   1.1111_1111_111      *(2**11) = 4095.0
                                               base 2
The radix of the internal representation for FLOAT constants
is implementation defined.

Mark Biggar
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