Re: Incorrect error?

[Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de>]

On 18.07.11 11:45, stefan-lucks@see-the.signature wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jul 2011, ldries46 wrote:
> 
> [...]
>>   a      : Real_Vector(0 .. 2);
>>   b      : Real_Vector(0 .. 2);
>>   cross  : Real_Vector(0 .. 2);
>> begin
> [...]
>>     Cross := a * b; -- VecCross( a, b, Cross ); <---------------- line 65 the
> 
> Why do you expect the product of two vectors to be an vector? 

For a vector product, if a ⨯ b is to be one, I find the expectation
quite justified.  Confusion is what we get in return for Ada overloading
ASCII punctuation, in this case "*".  ;-)  (Wolfram's title is
"cross product", http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CrossProduct.html
IIUC.)