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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Suprise of comparison result
Date: 1999/10/18
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In article <37fd7e17.0@news.pacifier.com>,
  "Steve Doiel" <nospam_steved@pacifier.com> wrote:
> I'm suprised that Ada behaves this way.  Both ObjectAda and
> GNAT give the same result.

That's because it is the well defined result of what was
written. You can always be surprised when you use a construct
you do not understand, in this case the problem is not knowing
the meaning of unary minus on modular types.

> If I were programming in C I would not be suprised at this
> result.  But in Ada?

Well I guess that's because you understand in C the nature
of unsigned modular types. Well the semantics of modular types
are pretty much identical in C and Ada, so the behavior will
indeed be similar!


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