From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Enumeration representation
Date: 1999/09/14
Date: 1999-09-14T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7rld95$dag$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: yec7llus8yw.fsf@king.cts.com
In article <yec7llus8yw.fsf@king.cts.com>,
Keith Thompson <kst@cts.com> wrote:
> If this feature had been better designed (IMHO), it would be
possible
> to get at the internal representation in a way that won't
break if the
> type or the representation is changed -- just recompile and it
works.
Well it is not a matter of better design here, this issue was
specifically discussed in the design process, it was the general
conclusion that this is simply not a valuable enough feature
to be worth adding complexity to the language for.
That being said, you can see that GNAT disagrees to the extent
of adding the Enum_Rep attribute, which seems easy enough to
implement, and harmless ...
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1999-09-10 0:00 Enumeration representation Alex
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-09-10 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-09-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-11 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-09-12 0:00 ` Bryce Bardin
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-12 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-09-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Alex
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2004-01-02 1:29 ` Stephen Leake
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2004-01-02 2:46 ` Robert A Duff
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