From: "Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen.adalog@wanadoo.fr>
Subject: Re: Ada Enumerations
Date: 1997/12/06
Date: 1997-12-06T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <66c2rb$hdg$1@peuplier.wanadoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.881289148@merv
Robert Dewar said
>Matthew says
>
><<Good advice. For low-level I/O, an enumeration type is often not what
you
>want anyway. What's wrong with a good old fashioned integer type?
>>>
>
>For one thing, it provides operations like addition, which are probably
>meaningless nonsense.
>
Sure, but don't forget that you can forbid direct calls by redefining the
functions as abstract.
(Just taking the opportunity to remind people of that relatively unknown
feature)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-12-06 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-12-03 0:00 Ada Enumerations Jeffrey Harris
1997-12-03 0:00 ` James S. Rogers
1997-12-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-03 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1997-12-04 0:00 ` GNAT'Object_Size Mats Weber
1997-12-05 0:00 ` GNAT'Object_Size Mats Weber
1997-12-04 0:00 ` GNAT'Object_Size Mats Weber
1997-12-04 0:00 ` GNAT'Object_Size Mats Weber
1997-12-08 0:00 ` GNAT'Object_Size Mats Weber
1997-12-10 0:00 ` GNAT'Object_Size Robert Dewar
1997-12-04 0:00 ` Ada Enumerations Matthew Heaney
1997-12-04 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1997-12-07 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1997-12-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-08 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1997-12-07 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-12-11 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-12-07 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-12-04 0:00 ` GNAT'Object_Size Mats Weber
1997-12-04 0:00 ` Ada Enumerations Robert Dewar
1997-12-04 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1997-12-18 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
1997-12-04 0:00 ` GNAT'Object_Size Mats Weber
1997-12-04 0:00 ` Ada Enumerations Stephen Leake
1997-12-04 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-12-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-06 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen [this message]
1997-12-06 0:00 ` Making Predefined Operators Abstract Matthew Heaney
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1997-12-10 0:00 Ada enumerations Stanley R. Allen
1997-12-10 0:00 ` John M. Mills
1997-12-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-11 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1997-12-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-11 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1997-12-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-12 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1997-12-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-12 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
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