From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Ada.Strings.Bounded
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:19:27 +0200
Date: 2008-04-22T21:19:29+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3mz09tpyuy2x.10k2f07q1nrt9$.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3eb5775f-c7f7-4f92-9154-8f25246b8592@p25g2000hsf.googlegroups.com
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:47:05 -0700 (PDT), Eric Hughes wrote:
> And so now I have developed a Strong Opinion. This is a travesty. A
> probably-irredeemable travesty. This is so completely counter-
> intuitive that I have a hard time believing that competent people came
> up with this way of writing the definition. It's unnecessary. There
> are far better ways of defining this, and they don't break any
> existing syntax.
>
> I'm out. Completely out. Everything I've said has been predicated on
> the assumption that the set of values of a type is what the
> declaration says it is, rather than having values that cannot be
> assigned to a variable of that type. In my opinion this means that
> assignment and variable definition are broken. I don't even care what
> the details are at this point.
Well, there are reasons why:
1. Integer types are thought as models for mathematical numbers. The range
is a constraint put on the set value.
2. This allows to skip a lot of checks when the implementation type is
larger than the range. Otherwise, the compiler would be forced to check
each intermediate result in order to raise Constraint_Error.
3. It is rather intuitive, normally one expects to get the right result,
independently on the intermediate results. Moreover, the compiler might
optimize the code choosing a different computation path, so long the result
is mathematically correct.
4. It makes programming less tedious, when values close to the range ends
are involved.
The only real disadvantage I see, is that the program might get
non-portable if programmers actively exploit 4.
--
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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2008-03-31 22:44 Untyped Ada? Phaedrus
2008-04-01 0:16 ` Randy Brukardt
2008-04-01 7:19 ` tmoran
2008-04-01 7:44 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-01 8:28 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2008-04-01 21:44 ` Phaedrus
2008-04-01 21:51 ` Ludovic Brenta
2008-04-01 17:09 ` Pascal Obry
2008-04-01 22:00 ` Phaedrus
2008-04-02 7:31 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-04 15:16 ` Graham
2008-04-04 16:10 ` Pascal Obry
2008-04-04 21:09 ` Ada.Bounded_Strings Adam Beneschan
2008-04-04 21:15 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Adam Beneschan
2008-04-05 4:39 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Gautier
2008-04-05 9:43 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Pascal Obry
2008-04-05 10:10 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-05 11:36 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Gautier
2008-04-05 12:14 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Pascal Obry
2008-04-06 0:31 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Randy Brukardt
2008-04-07 14:57 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Adam Beneschan
2008-04-07 15:23 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-07 16:34 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded stefan-lucks
2008-04-07 17:34 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded (see below)
2008-04-12 18:50 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-12 19:46 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Georg Bauhaus
2008-04-13 16:53 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-13 20:10 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Robert A Duff
2008-04-13 23:52 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-14 8:00 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-14 15:25 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-14 18:36 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-15 1:39 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-12 21:09 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-13 16:31 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-13 20:02 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Robert A Duff
2008-04-13 23:20 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-14 9:07 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-14 15:50 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-14 18:52 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-15 2:07 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-15 8:02 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-15 14:20 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-15 15:23 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-16 2:51 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-16 8:00 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
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2008-04-15 14:58 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-16 2:46 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-16 8:16 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-16 14:40 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-16 18:28 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-21 0:44 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-21 14:08 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Robert A Duff
2008-04-21 16:35 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-21 18:04 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Robert A Duff
2008-04-22 0:19 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-22 0:49 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Adam Beneschan
2008-04-22 1:02 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Adam Beneschan
2008-04-22 15:30 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-22 16:08 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Robert A Duff
2008-04-22 15:25 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-22 15:54 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Robert A Duff
2008-04-22 15:41 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Robert A Duff
2008-04-22 17:49 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-22 18:26 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Samuel Tardieu
2008-04-22 18:59 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-22 18:47 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-22 19:19 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2008-04-22 19:41 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Robert A Duff
2008-04-22 22:55 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-23 6:40 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded christoph.grein
2008-04-23 6:54 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded christoph.grein
2008-04-23 10:42 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Georg Bauhaus
2008-04-23 12:32 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-23 12:52 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded christoph.grein
2008-04-23 13:34 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Georg Bauhaus
2008-04-23 15:12 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Adam Beneschan
2008-04-23 15:36 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded (see below)
2008-04-23 17:09 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Ray Blaak
2008-04-24 0:29 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Randy Brukardt
2008-04-22 20:15 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Adam Beneschan
2008-04-23 13:14 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Peter Hermann
2008-04-23 14:40 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-23 15:03 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Adam Beneschan
2008-04-22 19:56 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Adam Beneschan
2008-04-21 18:50 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-22 0:31 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-14 15:11 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Adam Beneschan
2008-04-14 16:09 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-14 18:13 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Georg Bauhaus
2008-04-15 1:35 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-15 20:33 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Georg Bauhaus
2008-04-16 3:11 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-04 23:35 ` Ada.Bounded_Strings Robert A Duff
2008-04-05 1:46 ` Ada.Bounded_Strings Adam Beneschan
2008-04-05 4:55 ` Ada.Bounded_Strings Randy Brukardt
2008-04-05 7:30 ` Ada.Bounded_Strings Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-06 0:44 ` Ada.Bounded_Strings Randy Brukardt
2008-04-04 16:18 ` Untyped Ada? Adam Beneschan
2008-04-04 16:32 ` DScott
2008-04-04 17:38 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-04 18:52 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-04-05 8:07 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-04 19:14 ` Graham
2008-04-04 21:06 ` tmoran
2008-04-05 8:44 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-12 16:50 ` Eric Hughes
2008-04-04 18:02 ` adaworks
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