From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
Subject: Re: Is it really Ok to assert that the Ada syntax is a context-free grammar ?
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:34:34 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2008-02-20T02:34:34-08:00 [thread overview]
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Martin Krischik wrote:
> Jeffrey R. Carter schrieb:
> > X (Y) cannot represent a type cast because Ada does not have anything
> > called "type cast".
>
> Not quite, if you consider "type cast" is a unchecked bit pattern copy -
> so if you define:
Jeffrey is correct; it is not a "type cast", it is a "type conversion"
and there is no such thing as "Ada.Unchecked_Cast". Yes, this is nit-
picking; why would we choose Ada if we didn't care about details and
wording?
--
Ludovic Brenta.
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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 [this message]
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 23:54 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2008-02-22 19:51 ` Randy Brukardt
2008-02-23 18:13 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2008-02-21 22:19 ` Randy Brukardt
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
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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