From: Bret@B
Subject: Re: Modular type. What is it and why?
Date: 1999/04/07
Date: 1999-04-07T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7ehctj$f7s@drn.newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7egmbf$tgi$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com
In article <7egmbf$tgi$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, Robert says...
>
>People can read a general definition of modular types,
>and easily miss that this is in fact the facility in
>Ada for providing conventional unsigned types.
>
Then why did they not simply call it 'unsigned'?
I agree it is more natural to call it 'unsigned' than
modular. Is it too late to change the RM?
Bert.
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-04-05 0:00 Modular type. What is it and why? Staffan Dittmer
1999-04-05 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-04-05 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-04-06 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-04-06 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-04-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-07 0:00 ` Bret [this message]
1999-04-11 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-04-06 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-04-06 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-04-06 0:00 ` bglbv
1999-04-07 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
1999-04-07 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-04-07 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1999-04-08 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
1999-04-06 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
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