From: John McCabe <john@assen.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Renaming Fixed Point Mutiplicative operator in Ada 95
Date: 1998/05/21
Date: 1998-05-21T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6k0na0$po4@gcsin3.geccs.gecm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: matthew_heaney-ya023680002005981908570001@news.ni.net
matthew_heaney@acm.org (Matthew Heaney) wrote:
>We disagree here - as we have in the past. Fair enough. Then how about
>enumerating the specific circumstances under which a fixed point
>multiply can raise an exception?
>
>My assumption was that, because the multiplication returns universal
>fixed, no exception would be raised. So what would be the point of
>overriding the predefined operator in order to handle the "exception"?
Are you suggesting that in the example given, if LEFT and RIGHT are both
100, you get no exception and are returned a valid value (i.e. in the
range -1000.0 to 1000.0?
If no exception is raised, how do you tell whether the limits of a types
range have been exceeded or not?
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-05-19 0:00 Renaming Fixed Point Mutiplicative operator in Ada 95 Stuart Hutchesson
1998-05-19 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-05-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <matthew_heaney-ya023680002005981908570001@news.ni.net>
[not found] ` <01bd84c3$47215d60$440029a1@m00rq900>
1998-05-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-05-21 0:00 ` Simon Pilgrim
1998-05-21 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-05-22 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-05-22 0:00 ` Stuart Hutchesson
1998-05-22 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-05-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-05-22 0:00 ` Rod Chapman
1998-05-22 0:00 ` John McCabe
1998-05-21 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-05-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-05-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-05-22 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-05-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-05-21 0:00 ` John McCabe [this message]
1998-05-21 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-05-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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