From: "Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: Alternate to Unchecked_Conversion - Portable?
Date: 1999/03/01
Date: 1999-03-01T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7beqcc$fs8$1@plug.news.pipex.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7bei3a$pjk$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com
dewar@gnat.com wrote in message <7bei3a$pjk$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
[...]
|It's not so simple. Conformance to the standard is a
|desirable property, but not the only desirable property,
|and a compiler vendor who considers conformance to be
|of primary importance over all other considerations may
|well produce a very correct compiler that is not however
|usable for any number of reasons (just remember that Ada/Ed
|was fully conformant :-)
[...]
All of which granted. I remember back to the "good old" bad old days, when
many Ada (83!) compilers -- even before the official concession to partial
implementations -- would omit whole features. "Fixed point? Oh, yeah, well,
we're getting round to fixed point, mate. Next release, maybe." Aaaargh.
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Nick Roberts
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Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-02-21 0:00 Alternate to Unchecked_Conversion - Portable? Steve Doiel
1999-02-21 0:00 ` Steve Quinlan
1999-02-22 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-21 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-22 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-22 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-02-22 0:00 ` Christopher Green
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-02-24 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-25 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-27 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-24 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Christopher Green
1999-02-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-24 0:00 ` Christopher Green
1999-02-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-25 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-25 0:00 ` Christopher Green
1999-02-26 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Christopher Green
1999-03-01 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-01 0:00 ` dewar
1999-03-01 0:00 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-02-26 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-02-28 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Christopher Green
1999-02-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-24 0:00 ` Christopher Green
1999-02-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-02-22 0:00 ` Tom Moran
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