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=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID,
	PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII
X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94
X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public
X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-Thread: 10261c,90121986704b5776
X-Google-Attributes: gid10261c,public
X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94
X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public
From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Subject: Re: Yet another stupid language war (was: ... the only languages you
 need!!)
Date: 1997/11/03
Message-ID: <63jrhg$2uj$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>#1/1
X-Deja-AN: 286701318
References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com>
  <3458D116.2D34@pseserv3.fw.hac.com> <63anc7$75p$1@darla.visi.com>
  <345947D2.D20EF8E9@horvath.com> <63d34m$ap7$1@darla.visi.com>
  <01bce627$82afbec0$400d6dce@my-pc.neosoft.com>
 <lVxfAOAEOzW0Ewsm@merlyn.demon.co.uk>
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
NNTP-Posting-User: ok
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.pascal.misc
Date: 1997-11-03T00:00:00+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>


Dr John Stockton <jrs@merlyn.demon.co.uk> writes:
>There are tricks in Pascal, which might adapt to Ada or C/C++ -

>Type T = { integer or shortint or longint } ;

shortint and longint are not in any Pascal standard.

>U = array [SizeOf(T)..2] of byte { should fail if T >16 bits } ;

sizeof is not in any Pascal standard (7185, 10206, or the draft OOP stuff).

-- 
John �neas Byron O'Keefe; 1921/02/04-1997/09/27; TLG,TLTA,BBTNOTL.
Richard A. O'Keefe; RMIT Comp.Sci; http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/%7Eok