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,cc4f25d878383cc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-12-10 13:22:37 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C152226.7F4A7E91@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: Another Idea for Ada 20XX References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 15:59:18 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1008017962 151.168.144.162 (Mon, 10 Dec 2001 15:59:22 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 15:59:22 EST Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:17716 Date: 2001-12-10T15:59:18-05:00 List-Id: "Robert C. Leif, Ph.D." wrote: > > From: Bob Leif > To: Stephen Leake et al. > "Defining _all_ of these required conversion multipliers is the killer > for this concept." > > This is particularly true since they are NOT needed! In fact, the actual In the concept he was talking about, they ARE needed. In the exponent/record concept they are not. Instead, there one has to define all the conversion and IO operations and attributes. -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau