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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,efc31958da938b4d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-26 15:03:31 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.mathworks.com!wn3feed!worldnet.att.net!135.173.83.71!wnfilter1!worldnet-localpost!bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3BD9DDC1.7874EA5E@worldnet.att.net> From: James Rogers X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: No sientific notation... References: <3BD20954.D72177F5@ida.his.se> <3BD9D70E.1C214241@ebox.tninet.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 22:03:30 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.86.35.170 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1004133810 12.86.35.170 (Fri, 26 Oct 2001 22:03:30 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 22:03:30 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15282 Date: 2001-10-26T22:03:30+00:00 List-Id: Stefan Skoglund wrote: > > Dale Stanbrough wrote: > > > > Put (My_Float, Fore => 4, Aft => 4, Exp => 0); > > > > 4 spaces beFORE the decimal point, 4 AFTer, no EXPonent. > > Which is i think illegal either qualify all parameters or use positional > evaluation only ! No, this is quite legal. You can mix positional and named notation as long as the positional parts are used first. In other words, you cannot start off with named notation and end with positional. Jim Rogers Colorado Springs, Colorado USA