From: mgk25@cl.cam.ac.uk (Markus Kuhn)
Subject: Re: trunc
Date: 1999/03/19
Date: 1999-03-19T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7ctn9c$qtg$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7ctjsj$b20@top.mitre.org
mfb@mbunix.mitre.org (Michael F Brenner) writes:
|> y:=x'floor; -- Postcondition: Y is now the whole-number of X
GNAT 3.11p says "prefix of 'floor' attribute must be a type"
and the ARM agrees.
Correct would have been:
y := float'floor(x);
Floor is a function, therefore it should look like one. Your
syntax looks like what might have been a convenient abbreviation,
but Ada is not about abbreviations.
Markus
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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-03-18 0:00 trunc phadreus
1999-03-18 0:00 ` trunc Matthew Heaney
1999-03-18 0:00 ` trunc Tucker Taft
1999-03-19 0:00 ` trunc Michael Stark
1999-03-18 0:00 ` trunc Nick Roberts
1999-03-19 0:00 ` trunc Michael F Brenner
1999-03-19 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn [this message]
1999-03-22 0:00 ` trunc Howard W. LUDWIG
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