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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,83d7c4caadb45100 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) Subject: Re: DECAda/VMS - calling GETJPI Date: 1996/06/05 Message-ID: <4p32m3$51g@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 158533611 references: <31B2AF74.668E@dial.eunet.ch> <4p183b$2vs@linus.mitre.org> <4p1v56$214@linus.mitre.org> organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-06-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: >What the meeting in England did was decide to change the way >modular operations were handled, and in particular to change the semantics >of conversion to avoid the implicit modular conversion. There were a number >of closely related issues, and when considered together, it was clearly >an advantageous change, as evidenced by the fact that the vote in favor >of this change was unanimous by delegations. It would be helpful if someone were to give a brief explanation of the arguments in favour of this design decision. -- Fergus Henderson | "I have always known that the pursuit WWW: | of excellence is a lethal habit" PGP: finger fjh@128.250.37.3 | -- the last words of T. S. Garp.