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-Thread: 103376,fc52c633190162e0
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
Path: 
 g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!164.128.36.58!news.ip-plus.net!newsfeed.ip-plus.net!news.post.ch!not-for-mail
From: Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: why learn C?
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 10:45:44 +0200
Organization: Swisscom IP+ (post doesn't reflect views of Swisscom)
Message-ID: <4610c2b9@news.post.ch>
References: <1172144043.746296.44680@m58g2000cwm.googlegroups.com>
   <slrnetr31o.875.Marc.Boyer@localhost.localdomain>
   <1172161751.573558.24140@h3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>
   <slrnetri6j.875.Marc.Boyer@localhost.localdomain>
   <546qkhF1tr7dtU1@mid.individual.net>
   <slrnett8ph.807.Marc.Boyer@localhost.localdomain>
   <5ZULh.48$YL5.40@newssvr29.news.prodigy.net>
   <1175215906.645110.217810@e65g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>
   <1175230352.808212.15550@e65g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>
   <1175236212.771445.135460@y66g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>
   <1175308871.266257.77460@e65g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>
 <1175499821.557815.303270@y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.41.146.1
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Trace: atlas.ip-plus.net 1175503549 6611 194.41.146.1 (2 Apr 2007 08:45:49
 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: abuse@ip-plus.net
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 08:45:49 +0000 (UTC)
User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025)
In-Reply-To: <1175499821.557815.303270@y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>
X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: w01iwt.pnet.ch
X-Original-Trace: 2 Apr 2007 10:45:45 +0200, w01iwt.pnet.ch
Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14729
Date: 2007-04-02T10:45:44+02:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

kevin cline schrieb:

> True.  The C++ design philosophy was that features would not be added
> to the language if they could be implemented as library classes.  A
> limited-range integer is a pretty trivial class to write, so there was
> no need to add it to the language.

That would be fair enough if they actually added a limited-range integer 
class.

And how about a limited-range float ;-)

Martin