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,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,32cfbb718858528b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-10 11:44:54 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!dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D04F394.64FE6E69@despammed.com> From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wesgroleau@despammed.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: Commercial C To Ada 95 compiler References: <3D002D11.CC706952@adaworks.com> <4519e058.0206071148.9b87acf@posting.google.com> <3D0116F3.7254E263@despammed.com> <3D018106.6080004@worldnet.att.net> <3D0184BD.69723B2D@san.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 13:44:36 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1023734693 151.168.144.162 (Mon, 10 Jun 2002 13:44:53 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 13:44:53 CDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:25690 Date: 2002-06-10T13:44:36-05:00 List-Id: > > Ada provides no such implicit conversion. You will at least need > > to make all implicit C conversions explicit in Ada. > > Well, I would imagine that the translator could do this, yes? Yes, but the translator can't tell the difference between an implicit conversion that the programmer intentionally took advantage of and an implicit conversion that comes from a programmer's screw-up. -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau