From: kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner)
Subject: Re: Delphi & Ada; Ada to C++
Date: 1998/02/21
Date: 1998-02-21T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6cms2p$7pv$1@news.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: x7v1zwxtkvz.fsf@pogner.demon.co.uk
In article <x7v1zwxtkvz.fsf@pogner.demon.co.uk> Simon Wright <simon@pogner.demon.co.uk> writes:
>And even if it did, it's unlikely that you would be able to make a lot
>of sense of it. Names would be mangled, strange and wonderful
>constructs would appear, ... (just think about exceptions, generics,
>...) you would not want to maintain the result!
Actually, generics can be translated in a relatively straightforward
manner since it's just macro substitution. Exceptions are trickier,
but still can be done reasonable well. The real hard cases are
variant records and unconstrained arrays.
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-02-13 0:00 Ada to C++ Translators David Kusuda
1998-02-14 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-16 0:00 ` David Weller
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Jean D. Ichbiah
1998-02-18 0:00 ` David Weller
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-02-21 0:00 ` Esa Pulkkinen
1998-02-23 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-02-19 0:00 ` Jean D. Ichbiah
1998-02-19 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-25 0:00 ` Scott Leschke
1998-02-25 0:00 ` David Weller
1998-02-19 0:00 ` Delphi & Ada; Ada to C++ Nick Roberts
1998-02-19 0:00 ` David Weller
1998-02-19 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-19 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1998-02-20 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-21 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1998-02-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-21 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1998-02-21 0:00 ` Richard Kenner [this message]
1998-03-05 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
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1998-02-23 0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
1998-02-24 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1998-02-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-25 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
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