Re: bitwise comparators

[Alexander Van Hecke <alexke@hotmail.com>]

> I'd also like to point out that the "while" construct you are using is
> common for 'C' or Pascal, but in Ada you could use a "loop" construct with
> "exit when"
>

thank you all for your response!
As many of you have pointed out, I could have used exit when ...
But as you probably noticed, I have a C background and I'm not that familiar
with Ada.  I think it's a nice feature of Ada that you can write 'readable'
code, but IMHO Ada takes a lot longer to learn, there are more constructs,
keywords, etc...  In a word, the language is more complicated, yet not
necessarily more powerfull (hope I don't get flamed for this :-)).   In C you'd
have one while loop, and you'd put your condition in the while expression and
that's it.  Nothing more to learn about it!
What's your opinion on this?

alex