From: jgamache@mailgw.sanders.lockheed.com (Joe Gamache)
Subject: Re: Which "/" is referenced in a numeric literal expression?
Date: 1996/02/20
Date: 1996-02-20T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4gcifh$itt@news.sanders.lockheed.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.824576957@schonberg
In article <dewar.824576957@schonberg>, dewar@cs.nyu.edu says...
>
>What a peculiar comment! This was a reduced version of a little bit of
>Ada to ask a language question, no style issues were in sight here. Ve
>ry
>often the examples we use to illustrate language questions are in "ppo
>r
>style" preciesely because you want to distill out irrelevant stuff.
>
The reduced version of my point is simple: since the example made use
of a "style" that should be avoided, the answer to the language question
is somewhat moot. Not that the question should not be answered. But
rather, "here's the answer, BTW it doesn't matter since you shouldn't
ever be doing this anyway...."
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1996-02-17 0:00 ` Which "/" is referenced in a numeric literal expression? Robert Dewar
1996-02-20 0:00 ` Joe Gamache [this message]
1996-02-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-02-23 0:00 ` Joe Gamache
1996-02-26 0:00 ` Gene Ouye
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