From: Dale Stanbrough <dale@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Calling C time function from ADA-95
Date: 1998/06/08
Date: 1998-06-08T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6lhnan$1vi$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 357C141E.D868661F@earthling.net
Charles Hixson writes:
"Well, since you asked, the year type of Calendar has a **much** too
restricted range. Saving space by restricting the size of the year that
way reminds me of all of the programs that stored only two digits for
their year in the '60s, and now their descendants are delighting
everyone."
I always thought the range was chosen to allow for fast leap year
calculations (year mod 4, excluding the more expensive mod 100/mod 400)
rather than to save space. Does anyone have any better knowledge?
Dale
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-06-07 0:00 Calling C time function from ADA-95 Faust!
1998-06-06 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-06-08 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
1998-06-08 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough [this message]
1998-06-08 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-06-09 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-06-09 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
1998-06-09 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-06-09 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
1998-06-12 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-06-07 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
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