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: 103376,7e60c1d99ae3ffa1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-09-13 08:27:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D8203A1.6931201A@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: Announce: The Ultimate SI Units Cracker References: <3D809F51.299A6634@despammed.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 10:26:25 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1031930829 151.168.144.162 (Fri, 13 Sep 2002 11:27:09 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 11:27:09 EDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:28932 Date: 2002-09-13T10:26:25-05:00 List-Id: "Dmitry A.Kazakov" wrote: > Then any discriminant-based solution faces the following problems: > > 1. There is no way to force the compiler to remove statically known > discriminants and calculate expressions on them at compile-time. I prefer to look at it as "There's no rule to prevent a compiler vendor from .... and no way to prevent a user from selecting that compiler." -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau A pessimist says the glass is half-empty. An optimist says the glass is half-full. An engineer says the glass wastes space. A salesman says the glass exceeds its requirements.