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From: Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Is it really Ok to assert that the Ada syntax is a context-free grammar ?
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:02:02 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2008-02-23T11:02:02-08:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6729bfba-14b3-4d5d-bdfd-f8bb4c7fe46d@b29g2000hsa.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1646707.uLek5tK8oX@linux1.krischik.com

On 21 Lut, 20:24, Martin Krischik <krisc...@users.sourceforge.net>
wrote:

> (X)Y copy a bit pattern.

In Ada? No. In C or C++? Not always.

> reinterpret_cast <X>(Y) copies a bit pattern.

In C++? Not always. For example, if X is a reference type, then no
copying is involved - it is rather a "view conversion".
These conversions have ugly names for the same reasons as
Unchecked_XXX in Ada.

--
Maciej Sobczak * www.msobczak.com * www.inspirel.com



  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-23 19:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-20  0:47 Is it really Ok to assert that the Ada syntax is a context-free grammar ? Hibou57
2008-02-20  2:06 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-02-20 10:05   ` Martin Krischik
2008-02-20 10:34     ` Ludovic Brenta
2008-02-20 11:13       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-02-22  8:57         ` Stephen Leake
2008-02-22 10:44           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-02-20 14:22       ` Hibou57
2008-02-20 15:19         ` Niklas Holsti
2008-02-20 18:34           ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2008-02-20 19:10             ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2008-02-21  0:39               ` Randy Brukardt
2008-02-21  0:56                 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2008-02-21 22:19                   ` Randy Brukardt
2008-02-21 22:19                   ` Randy Brukardt
2008-02-21 23:54                     ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2008-02-22 19:51                       ` Randy Brukardt
2008-02-23 18:13                         ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2008-02-20 20:22             ` Niklas Holsti
2008-02-20 21:38             ` Manuel Collado
2008-02-21  0:30               ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2008-02-20 20:51         ` Robert A Duff
2008-02-21 19:24       ` Martin Krischik
2008-02-22 20:17         ` Simon Wright
2008-02-25 21:47           ` Samuel Tardieu
2008-02-23 19:02         ` Maciej Sobczak [this message]
2008-02-20 18:27     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-02-21 19:20       ` Martin Krischik
2008-02-21 21:31         ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-02-20  5:53 ` Niklas Holsti
2008-02-20 16:43 ` Adam Beneschan
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