Re: Ada Recursion with strings

[Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>]

On Oct 1, 4:34 am, "Jeffrey R. Carter"
<spam.jrcarter....@spam.acm.org> wrote:
> Robert A Duff wrote:
>
> > Do you really think that's useful in this case, where 2**8
> > appears several times close together?  What would you call
> > that named number -- Two_To_The_Eighth?
>
> I'd probably do
>
> Bits_Per_Byte   : constant := 8;
> Values_Per_Byte : constant := 2 ** Bits_Per_Byte;

Yep, the advantage of that is that if the people who design the
Internet communication protocols suddenly decide that IP addresses are
going to use 9-bit bytes, all you have to do is change one constant,
rather than try to find all the 8's in your code and change them,
which is more error-prone.

                            -- Adam