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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.36.249.73 with SMTP id l70mr2449230ith.27.1508225531202; Tue, 17 Oct 2017 00:32:11 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.157.20.173 with SMTP id d42mr448547ote.3.1508225531176; Tue, 17 Oct 2017 00:32:11 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!border1.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!peer02.ams1!peer.ams1.xlned.com!news.xlned.com!peer01.am4!peer.am4.highwinds-media.com!peer01.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!l196no241104itl.0!news-out.google.com!194ni482itf.0!nntp.google.com!k70no241174itk.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 00:32:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <08b898a2-168e-4740-9c6e-8f2d9abf7093@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=85.167.238.77; posting-account=bPTmZAoAAAC_6HP9XLKB9aAAxBa6BuOR NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.167.238.77 References: <08b898a2-168e-4740-9c6e-8f2d9abf7093@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <3aebc413-4284-41f4-a31c-45091a31d2b3@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: How to make tasks to run in parallel From: reinert Injection-Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 07:32:11 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Received-Body-CRC: 1442852986 X-Received-Bytes: 1940 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:48487 Date: 2017-10-17T00:32:10-07:00 List-Id: On Tuesday, October 17, 2017 at 8:30:06 AM UTC+2, gautier...@hotmail.com wrote: > > And also why a private Real type when there is a general Float. > > Probably Reinert meant rather "subtype Real is Float". > And it is very useful, especially when you discover that the chosen floating-point type is too inaccurate: you just need to change a few characters in a single line of code... > > G. It sometimes use: "type Real is Digits 18;" I see the point (sometimes) using "substype" here. But I also like to avoid to add meter and seconds :-) I.e. to be "clean" with respect to dimensions/units. reinert