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: 103376,1dd28d5040ded1f8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-15 11:39:37 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ra.nrl.navy.mil!dca6-feed2.news.algx.net!dca6-feed1.news.algx.net!allegiance!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!cyclone.socal.rr.com!cyclone3.kc.rr.com!news3.kc.rr.com!twister.socal.rr.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CE2AB7E.AD4A9956@san.rr.com> From: Darren New X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Announce: Grace project site operational References: <4519e058.0205140718.3ddb1b2a@posting.google.com> <3CE15D0A.3050100@mail.com> <3ce21f37$1@pull.gecm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 18:39:36 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.75.151.160 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: twister.socal.rr.com 1021487976 66.75.151.160 (Wed, 15 May 2002 11:39:36 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 11:39:36 PDT Organization: RoadRunner - West Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:24114 Date: 2002-05-15T18:39:36+00:00 List-Id: Stephen Leake wrote: > or suffer > from combinatoric explosion of types. Can someone explain why a combinatoric explosion of types is bad in this case? I mean, considering that you only have to declare them once? I can even see a preprocessor generating the Ada declarations from some simple description of what to call the different combinations (such as area=length*length). I mean, is it inherently bad that Ada represents a combinatoric explosion of types in the real world with a combinatoric explosion of declarations? And if so, why is it bad? Is it just the compilation overhead? -- Darren New San Diego, CA, USA (PST). Cryptokeys on demand. ** http://home.san.rr.com/dnew/DNResume.html ** ** http://images.fbrtech.com/dnew/ ** My brain needs a "back" button so I can remember where I left my coffee mug.