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: 103376,4751d44ff54a2c2c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-08-04 19:23:56 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!wn1feed!worldnet.att.net!208.49.253.98!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!harp.news.atl.earthlink.net!not-for-mail From: Richard Riehle Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: 64-bit integers in Ada Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2002 19:28:19 -0700 Organization: AdaWorks Software Engineering Message-ID: <3D4DE2C2.8A7674E6@adaworks.com> References: <3CE3978F.6070704@gmx.spam.egg.sausage.and.spam.net> <3D46DC69.7C291297@adaworks.com> <5ee5b646.0207301613.5b59616c@posting.google.com> <5ee5b646.0208030424.39703482@posting.google.com> <3D4C2805.62563584@adaworks.com> <5ee5b646.0208040607.ebb6909@posting.google.com> Reply-To: richard@adaworks.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 41.b2.41.e0 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 5 Aug 2002 02:23:55 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:27685 Date: 2002-08-05T02:23:55+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote: > First. I trust we all agree that new Ada code should > almost NEVER EVER use type Integer, except as the > index of the String type. Robert, We are in full agreement on all of the points you made. The only two uses of predefined type Integer are its requirement in the predefined String, and for occasional pedagogic purposes, and the latter use often leads to more trouble than it is worth. Richard Riehle