From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: printf package/Function/Procedure in Ada ??
Date: 1999/03/10
Date: 1999-03-10T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7c4v1g$r83$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7c4e75$e5m@drn.newsguy.com
In article <7c4e75$e5m@drn.newsguy.com>,
solo <solo@newsguy.com> wrote:
> This will be a package that will have a printf procedure
> that exactly matches that of the C printf specs.
Since the C printf spec is fundametally type unsafe, there
is no way to cleanly emulate this capability in Ada, and
the more significant question is why you would want to do
this. How about you tell us what the real problem you are
trying to solve is, instead of asking about a particular
(impractical) solution?
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-03-09 0:00 printf package/Function/Procedure in Ada ?? solo
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Corey Ashford
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-03-10 0:00 ` robert_dewar [this message]
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-03-10 0:00 ` dennison
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