From: dvdeug@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: non-consecutive ranges
Date: 1999/05/01
Date: 1999-05-01T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7gfjfc$alt$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7gesqf$pfc$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com
In article <7gesqf$pfc$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com> wrote:
> That's actually quite a nice extension, which can be done as an
> attribute (and therefore is an "allowed" extension).
[...]
> Then Domain_Check would be called whenever a value of type Odd_Integer
> was modified. Another formulation would be
>
> function Check (X : Odd_Integer) return Odd_Integer;
>
> which would have the opportunity of modifying the assigned value before
> the assignment.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Useful feature?
> Silly bell and whistle?
It's interesting. I think the second one is more useful, and if it existed, I
would probably use it at one point. But it is redundant with Ada's typing
system, and non-portable, so I'd head towards the bell and whistle side.
--
David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org
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1999-04-30 0:00 non-consecutive ranges vlight
1999-04-30 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-04-30 0:00 ` dennison
1999-04-30 0:00 ` dennison
1999-05-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-01 0:00 ` dvdeug [this message]
1999-05-01 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-05-01 0:00 ` bglbv
1999-05-02 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-05-01 0:00 ` Robert B. Love
1999-05-04 0:00 ` fraser
1999-05-03 0:00 ` Josh Highley
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