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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: why learn C?
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On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:29:18 -0500, Randy Brukardt wrote:

> And there are various non-obvious
> idioms that are very handy, like using Boolean'Pos to get the effect of a
> conditional expression:
> 
> Something : Integer := Boolean'Pos(<condition>)*Function1 + Boolean'Pos(not
> <condition>)*Function2;

That's great and it is used extensively, not in Ada of course, but in some
scripting languages used in process control. Especially interesting it
becomes when the condition and its inversion expressions are a subject of
race condition. In the language I am talking about it is practically always
the case...

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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