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From: mgk25@cl.cam.ac.uk (Markus Kuhn)
Subject: Re: trunc
Date: 1999/03/19
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Date: 1999-03-19T00:00:00+00:00
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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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