From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org>
Subject: Re: Ada Recursion with strings
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:34:22 GMT
Date: 2008-10-01T11:34:22+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2fJEk.367687$yE1.299201@attbi_s21> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <wccljx9yv1y.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Robert A Duff wrote:
>
> Do you really think that's useful in this case, where 2**8
> appears several times close together? What would you call
> that named number -- Two_To_The_Eighth?
I'd probably do
Bits_Per_Byte : constant := 8;
Values_Per_Byte : constant := 2 ** Bits_Per_Byte;
--
Jeff Carter
"Brave Sir Robin ran away."
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-30 20:30 Ada Recursion with strings Joe
2008-09-30 22:24 ` Adam Beneschan
2008-09-30 22:24 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-10-01 0:13 ` Joe
2008-10-01 0:27 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-10-01 1:15 ` Robert A Duff
2008-10-01 11:34 ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2008-10-01 14:29 ` Adam Beneschan
2008-10-01 15:18 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2008-10-01 16:47 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-10-02 7:24 ` Niklas Holsti
2008-10-02 8:18 ` Ludovic Brenta
2008-10-03 6:54 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-10-03 7:38 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2008-10-03 9:06 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-10-01 0:28 ` Adam Beneschan
2008-10-01 9:48 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-10-01 10:22 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-10-01 3:01 ` anon
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