Re: Ada decimal elaboration, further experimentation.

[dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)]

In article <8807031845.AA01533@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu> CONTR47@NOSC-TECR.ARPA writes:
 > Norm Cohen writes:
...
 > The Ada rule is that conversion takes place only at the bottom of the
 > expression tree: Only numeric literals, named numbers, and attributes
                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 > with universal results are convertible.
 > ------------------------------
 > Wellll. I tried Norm's suggestion (assuming he meant
 > "constant dollar_type" instead of just "constant") so that
 > my_dime : constant dollar_type := 0.01 + 0.01 etc. for a total of ten 0.01s
...
 > How about other people trying this in case I'm
 > missing something and also to see how other

Yes, you are.  Norm did *not* mean constant dollar_type, but just constant.
You still are trying to get an implicit conversion from a universal real
expression to something of type dollar_type.  This is not possible, as noted
by Norm.

Oh, BTW, our system (DG) gives:
My dime is .102
Your dime is .078
which is wrong on two counts.
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