From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Higher precision and generics
Date: 18 Mar 1995 20:23:16 -0500
Date: 1995-03-18T20:23:16-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3kg124$elp@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3kbvpt$ltk@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de
Peter Hermann says:
"1. "with system;" makes the program non-portable"
This is *quite* wrong. Sure the definitions in System are target
dependent, but in many cases they are there PRECISELY to allow you
to write portable target-independent code that uses target dependent
features.
There are many situations in which the ONLY way to make a program portable
is to use the values in System. For example, a program that assumes
the addressabloe unit is 8-bits is much less portable than a program
that uses System
.Storage_Unit for this purpose.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1995-03-19 1:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1995-03-11 17:41 Higher precision and generics Duncan Sands
1995-03-14 16:13 ` David Arno
1995-03-15 12:12 ` Duncan Sands
1995-03-17 8:36 ` Dan Kurfis
1995-03-17 12:37 ` Peter Hermann
1995-03-19 1:23 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1995-03-20 16:33 ` Peter Hermann
1995-03-21 21:14 ` Robert Dewar
1995-03-18 1:45 ` Keith Thompson
1995-03-20 9:05 ` dkurfis
1995-03-15 15:36 ` Mats Weber
1995-03-15 16:35 ` Peter Hermann
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