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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1cf653444208df72 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-10 08:15:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!pln-w!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!151.164.30.35!cyclone.swbell.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3BC46265.17462339@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wwgrol@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ada vs. cpp References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:59:49 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1002726021 151.168.144.162 (Wed, 10 Oct 2001 10:00:21 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 10:00:21 CDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14159 Date: 2001-10-10T09:59:49-05:00 List-Id: Steven Deller wrote: > Numerous unlimited arithmetic packages have been defined in Ada for > integers, for rational's and for floating point. Any type derived from > those packages have the unlimited aspect you are looking for. And they are > used "naturally", e.g. If "naturally" means they can be used like regular integers, not quite. No 'first 'last 'range etc. attributes For "integers," can't use as indexes, case selectors, in for-loops (then again, why would anyone _want_ to use an unlimited_integer for these?) -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau