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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,496108d9dbc25896 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: printf package/Function/Procedure in Ada ?? Date: 1999/03/10 Message-ID: <7c4v1g$r83$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 453254382 References: <7c4e75$e5m@drn.newsguy.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x13.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Wed Mar 10 05:13:25 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-03-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <7c4e75$e5m@drn.newsguy.com>, solo 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? -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own