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From: Jeff Carter <jrcarter@acm.org>
Subject: Re: First time Ada has let me down
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 04:00:45 GMT
Date: 2000-10-26T04:00:45+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <39F7AC37.FF6445D@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8FD8A9ED5andrewloguecdcgycom@142.77.1.194

Shifty wrote:
>   function Calculate_Ip_Header_Length
>              (Byte_At : in System.Address) return Integer is

It's extremely rare to need to use addresses in all-Ada code except when
dealing with hardware, even in Ada 83. It generally indicates either a
poor design or a lack of understanding of the capabilities of the
language.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"You couldn't catch clap in a brothel, silly English K...niggets."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail



  reply	other threads:[~2000-10-26  4:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-10-25  3:50 First time Ada has let me down Shifty
2000-10-25  0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-10-25  0:00   ` Ted Dennison
2000-10-25  0:00     ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-10-25  0:00       ` Ted Dennison
2000-10-25  0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-10-25  0:00   ` Shifty
2000-10-26  4:00     ` Jeff Carter [this message]
2000-10-26 14:43       ` Ted Dennison
2000-10-26 17:55         ` tmoran
2000-10-26 17:12       ` Shifty
2000-10-27  1:00         ` Jeff Carter
2000-10-26 22:27       ` Guillaume
2000-10-26 21:49         ` Keith Thompson
2000-10-26 14:36     ` Ted Dennison
2000-10-26 17:55       ` tmoran
2000-10-26 23:08         ` Ted Dennison
2000-10-25  0:00 ` First time Ada has let me down (recipe) Guillaume
2000-10-26  2:45   ` Mats Weber
2000-10-25  0:00 ` First time Ada has let me down wv12
2000-10-25  0:00   ` Gisle Sælensminde
2000-10-25  0:00   ` Gautier
2000-10-25  0:00   ` Joel Seidman
2000-10-26  6:42   ` tmoran
2000-10-25  4:44 ` Julian Morrison
2000-10-25  4:50 ` Ted Dennison
2000-10-24  0:00   ` Keith Thompson
2000-10-26  0:00   ` Andreas Schulz
2000-10-26 18:05     ` Alejandro Villanueva
2000-10-26 21:46 ` Tucker Taft
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