From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3132fa2f1b036425 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-11-03 19:42:52 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!small1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!border1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp.gbronline.com!news.gbronline.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 21:42:51 -0600 Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 22:43:41 -0500 From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: groleau@freeshell.org Organization: Ain't no organization here! User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, es-mx, pt-br, fr-ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: number_base References: <49cbf610.0310311258.2024b12b@posting.google.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <7u-dnQyIyYemvTqiRVn-tA@gbronline.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.9.86.27 X-Trace: sv3-Wx3tMYZ5eZu61mgmYGNVZcnfH7yzOTK4MsJPc5tGANpPLdDFSgLkbmmH3dIfOaA2ju+/JXFZvd3S4nf!tayTn4u0+e0qiIS7Xbo7Mg+uqsCGjbYWZqjr7/Xq05xJzMQ6VZEsWJpKc1YhzqKLYQW78TI4FsNh X-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2022 Date: 2003-11-03T22:43:41-05:00 List-Id: Frank J. Lhota wrote: > Speaking of the ancients, should Ada be extended to support Roman numerals? > Why can't I print 2003 as "MMIII"? Because MI is not allowed in Ada. -- Wes Groleau When all you have is a perl, everything looks like a string.