From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,cfd23c10fd537a80 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen" Subject: Re: Ada Calendar oddity Date: 2000/05/10 Message-ID: <3919CC94.538DDBA0@online.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 621731499 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <39176D85.603D7AEC@research.canon.com.au> <39178DEA.FD2C20FA@research.canon.com.au> <8f92o1$6v$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3918BB77.693C70D6@research.canon.com.au> <8fahfv$mgt$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: news-abuse@online.no X-Trace: news1.online.no 957992100 130.67.225.66 (Wed, 10 May 2000 22:55:00 MET DST) Organization: Jensen programvareutvikling MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 22:55:00 MET DST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-05-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Preben Randhol wrote: > An example: If I were to make a program for issuing drivers licenses > here in Norway there would be a problem. Well not immediately but in > only 18 years. > > The reason is that driver's licenses expires as you get 100 years old. So > mine expires in 2073. > > If one wanted to use the Year type in Ada.Calendar for birthday and > expiration date, one would get an constraint error when one issued > drivers licences for these born this year. Wouldn't one? > > I may have missed some thing important when I speedily "read" the > Ada.Calendar, but this seems a bit odd to me (the upper limit that is). That would be a wrong use of the type. The drivers license "problem" is a database issue. You should not use something that is internal to Ada in that context. Greetings,