From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,e55245590c829bef X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,CP1252 Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!s4g2000yql.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Shark8 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Beginners question: Compound types, how-to? Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 14:54:50 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <7ba4e631-bfb8-4928-91b7-38cf0fb8828d@s4g2000yql.googlegroups.com> References: <86wroy58ff.fsf@gareth.avalon.lan> <86pqup5xfy.fsf@gareth.avalon.lan> <86y69d3rec.fsf@gareth.avalon.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: 174.28.254.71 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1288648490 14122 127.0.0.1 (1 Nov 2010 21:54:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 21:54:50 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: s4g2000yql.googlegroups.com; posting-host=174.28.254.71; posting-account=lJ3JNwoAAAAQfH3VV9vttJLkThaxtTfC User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0E),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:16105 Date: 2010-11-01T14:54:50-07:00 List-Id: On Nov 1, 2:43=A0pm, Yannick Duch=EAne (Hibou57) wrote: > > So there are two orthogonal reasons for _Type. The first is a kind of =A0 > workaround, and for the second one, its usefulness only appears when you = =A0 > look wide enough. You explain entirely what I was trying to say in these two sentences. > This is the source of lacks of understanding, as well as the source of = =A0 > incomplete justifications to say _Type is un-useful (you may be able to = =A0 > justification _Type is not good, as long as you forget about the things = =A0 > explained above, but this actually exist). > > -- > Si les chats miaulent et font autant de vocalises bizarres, c=92est pas p= our =A0 > les chiens. Thank you.