From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Subject: Re: Two ideas for the next Ada Standard
Date: 1996/09/06
Date: 1996-09-06T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50opus$l05@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.841911826@schonberg
dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
>Richard said
>"Wearing my Lisp hat: only because Ada doesn't actually support integers,
>but a machine-dependent set of machine-dependent small bounded integers."
>Actually that's not quite true, whether Ada supports arbitrary precision
>integers is an implemention dependent issue.
Thank you for the explanation. I expect to be learning Ada 95 for a long
time. However, Ada (the _standard_ language) can hardly be said to
"support" a feature that it allows but does not _require_ an implementation
to provide. One of the few things I dislike about Scheme is that it has
this nice well-thought-out "numeric tower", but implementations aren't
required to provide all of it, so Scheme code _written to the standard_
that crunches complex numbers doesn't port.
I even feel as though I'm on thin ice when I use Long_Float.
The standard says "IF Long_Float is predefined ..."
--
Australian citizen since 14 August 1996. *Now* I can vote the xxxs out!
Richard A. O'Keefe; http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/%7Eok; RMIT Comp.Sci.
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1996-08-31 0:00 Re:Two ideas for the next Ada Standard dulman
1996-09-01 0:00 ` Two " Robert Dewar
1996-09-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Joel VanLaven
1996-09-04 0:00 ` David Weller
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Jonas Nygren
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Two " Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe [this message]
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Jonas Nygren
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Jonas Nygren
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-09-08 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-09 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1996-09-09 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-07 0:00 ` Jonas Nygren
1996-09-08 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-08 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-08 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1996-09-11 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
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1996-09-06 0:00 Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1996-09-04 0:00 Bob Mathis
1996-09-04 0:00 Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-08-28 0:00 Two ideas for the next Ada standard Van Snyder
1996-08-29 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1996-08-30 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-08-30 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-08-31 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-08-31 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Dennison
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Dennison
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-07 0:00 ` Dennison
1996-09-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-09 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-07 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-09-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-02 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1996-09-02 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-08-30 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1996-08-30 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1996-08-30 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-08-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-31 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-08-31 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-01 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-08-31 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-01 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-02 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1996-09-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
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