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From: "Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: should I be interested in ada?
Date: 1999/02/24
Date: 1999-02-24T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7b2545$4qd$2@plug.news.pipex.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: EACHUS.99Feb23165633@spectre.mitre.org

Robert I. Eachus wrote in message ...
[...]
|   So Ada does have some idioms that can duplicate part of the
|functionality of FORALL, but it really would have been nice to add it
|to Ada 95.  Maybe next time.  (I never really understood why it didn't
|make it in.  There is a trivial syntax change associated with it, but
|compilers for low end machines could just treat it like a normal for
|loop.)

I suggest pragmas in another post, which I think could be workable. They
can't be used to change the semantics of any construct, but they can be used
to give the compiler more information about its semantics.


It also occurs to me that future additions to the Ada standard library might
profitably include quite a variety of elemental vector and matrix operations
(rotate, shift, sort, vector/matrix arithmetic, etc.).

I think it was mentioned recently in CLA that there should be a Fortran
package to provide Fortran facilities (e.g. ROTATE) for Ada: perhaps these
would be better provided 'straight' instead.

| Robert I. Eachus
|
|with Standard_Disclaimer;
|use  Standard_Disclaimer;
|function Message (Text: in Clever_Ideas) return Better_Ideas is...

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Nick Roberts
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  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-02-24  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 89+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-02-14  0:00 should I be interested in ada? Phillip Helbig
1999-02-15  0:00 ` Gautier
1999-02-15  0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-02-23  0:00   ` David Starner
1999-02-16  0:00 ` Ken Thomas
1999-02-17  0:00   ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-18  0:00     ` robert_dewar
1999-02-18  0:00       ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-18  0:00         ` William Clodius
1999-02-18  0:00           ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19  0:00             ` William Clodius
1999-02-19  0:00               ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-20  0:00                 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-22  0:00                   ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-22  0:00                     ` William Clodius
1999-02-23  0:00                     ` robert_dewar
1999-02-23  0:00                       ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-22  0:00                 ` William Clodius
1999-02-23  0:00                   ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-23  0:00                     ` William Clodius
1999-02-25  0:00                       ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-25  0:00                         ` robert_dewar
1999-02-23  0:00               ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-02-24  0:00                 ` William Clodius
1999-02-24  0:00                 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
1999-02-26  0:00                   ` Robert A Duff
1999-02-27  0:00                     ` Semantic info pragmas (was: should I be interested in ada?) Nick Roberts
1999-03-01  0:00                       ` Samuel Tardieu
1999-03-01  0:00                         ` Robert A Duff
1999-02-24  0:00               ` should I be interested in ada? William Clodius
1999-02-25  0:00                 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-25  0:00                   ` robert_dewar
1999-02-26  0:00                     ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-18  0:00           ` nabbasi
1999-02-18  0:00             ` robert_dewar
1999-02-18  0:00         ` Jerry Petrey
1999-02-18  0:00           ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-18  0:00             ` Joel Seidman
1999-02-18  0:00             ` Dan Nagle
1999-02-18  0:00               ` nabbasi
1999-02-19  0:00               ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-19  0:00                 ` Dan Nagle
1999-02-19  0:00                   ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19  0:00                     ` Dan Nagle
1999-02-19  0:00                     ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-23  0:00                     ` Peter Hermann
1999-02-19  0:00                 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19  0:00                   ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-19  0:00                     ` robert_dewar
1999-02-21  0:00                       ` William Clodius
1999-02-23  0:00                         ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-02-19  0:00                     ` William Clodius
1999-02-20  0:00                       ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-21  0:00                         ` robert_dewar
1999-02-21  0:00                           ` William Clodius
1999-02-22  0:00                           ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-18  0:00           ` fraser
1999-02-19  0:00             ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-20  0:00               ` fraser
1999-02-18  0:00         ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19  0:00           ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-19  0:00             ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19  0:00               ` Phillip Helbig
1999-02-19  0:00               ` dennison
1999-02-19  0:00                 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-20  0:00                   ` robert_dewar
1999-02-22  0:00                     ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-19  0:00                 ` William Clodius
1999-02-19  0:00                 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19  0:00               ` William Clodius
1999-02-19  0:00               ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-20  0:00                 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-20  0:00                   ` Steve Doiel
1999-02-20  0:00                 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-22  0:00                   ` dennison
1999-02-22  0:00                   ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-23  0:00                     ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-02-24  0:00                       ` White rabbit (was: should I be interested in ada?) dennison
1999-02-25  0:00                       ` Alice books " JP Thornley
1999-02-25  0:00                         ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-02-18  0:00     ` should I be interested in ada? robert_dewar
1999-02-18  0:00       ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-18  0:00         ` William Clodius
1999-02-18  0:00           ` dennison
1999-02-20  0:00 ` Hartmut H. Schaefer
1999-02-20  0:00   ` bill
1999-02-21  0:00     ` dewar
1999-02-21  0:00   ` dewar
1999-02-22  0:00     ` dennison
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