Re: Ada e-books

[Serge Robyns <serge.robyns@gmail.com>]

On Thursday, 19 November 2015 19:19:49 UTC+1, Jeffrey R. Carter  wrote:
> The Kindle app on Android tablets works well. I've heard that Calibre can
> convert AZW to EPUB, but unless you've done it before you probably won't want to
> buy a book
> 

Precisely!  If I buy it will take the paper version.  I do love paper books but e-books are convenient when you travel.

> The Rosen trick is used to gain write access to an in-mode parameter. It was
> needed pre-Ada 12 to simulate in-out mode parameters to functions; Ada 12 allows
> such parameters so it is not needed as much. An example is the Generator passed
> to a random-number function such as Ada.Numerics.Float_Random.Random, specified as
> 

And I thought I was also used to implement some kind of multiple inheritance with containers.  I'll open a new discussion with why I've been looking into it.

Thanks.