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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.teledata-fn.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool4.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 12:51:08 +0200 From: "G.B." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Your wish list for Ada 202X References: <7f1c01c5-3563-4b94-9831-152dbbf2ecdc@googlegroups.com> <8bhozh836pyt$.1qctlysud0s2q$.dlg@40tude.net> <1cdsyxjzsfgzm.1synpaujysv21$.dlg@40tude.net> In-Reply-To: <1cdsyxjzsfgzm.1synpaujysv21$.dlg@40tude.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <533a9a1c$0$7296$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net> Organization: Arcor NNTP-Posting-Date: 01 Apr 2014 12:51:08 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: e3ecaad7.newsspool1.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=XCQ[a1D`b12nBOkdL^Lo7>ic==]BZ:af>4Fo<]lROoR1<`=YMgDjhg27c6NeSWQTY?nc\616M64>:Lh>_cHTX3j=]AKAi<6jjT9 X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:19070 Date: 2014-04-01T12:51:08+02:00 List-Id: On 01.04.14 10:20, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > part of the implementation of the MD operation > > function "&" (Left, Right : Root_String_Type) return > Root_String_Type; How would MD work, practically, and efficiently, with numeric types? Should "+" be multiply dispatching, say? I'll assume that the compiler should then statically find the "+" determined by the type if its operands. Is this feasible?