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: 103376,583275b6950bf4e6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-29 04:02:56 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!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: Marin David Condic Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Saturated Math Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 07:02:54 -0400 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <3ED5E8DE.8070308@noplace.com> References: <3ECFF541.1010705@attbi.com> <3ED0B820.5050603@noplace.com> <3ED2096F.3020800@noplace.com> <3ED353BE.40605@noplace.com> <3ED4A323.3000909@noplace.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: d1.56.b2.9c Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 29 May 2003 11:02:56 GMT User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:37985 Date: 2003-05-29T11:02:56+00:00 List-Id: IMHO, that is the *worst* reason to exclude something from the language. ;-) By that argument, there are scores of things in the annexes that should be gotten rid of. We should start with the basic log and trig functions. Providing more facilities - especially if they are easy & cheap from the compiler writer's perspective - is something that will make Ada more generally useful and provide the developer with more leverage. MDC Randy Brukardt wrote: > > But probably the best reason that something like this will not be added > to Ada is that it doesn't add anything. There is nothing here that > cannot be done with code you write yourself. Since there is no hardware > support for these types, everything is a batch of code anyway; it might > as well be done with an in-lined subprogram. > -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jast.mil/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ a c m . o r g "In general the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other." -- Voltaire ======================================================================