From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Binary files vs Portablity vs Ada
Date: 1999/11/09
Date: 1999-11-09T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <809an9$trk$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3826FD9C.37446C29@callnetuk.com
In article <3826FD9C.37446C29@callnetuk.com>,
Nick Roberts <nickroberts@callnetuk.com> wrote:
> but possibly another suggestion for the next Ada revision might be two
> new predefined types:
>
> type Bit_Integer is mod 2;
>
> type Bit_Array is array (Natural range <>) of Bit_Integer;
>
> and then a new conversion introduced between Bit_Array (or types
derived
> from it) and any mod type whose modulus was a power of two (and
> static?). This conversion would stipulate that the bit with the lowest
> index (in the array) was the bit with the least significance (in the
> integer).
Why a one bit integer, as opposed to a boolean array?
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-11-04 0:00 Binary files vs Portablity vs Ada John Halleck
1999-11-05 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-11-05 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-11-05 0:00 ` John Halleck
1999-11-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-05 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-11-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-08 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-11-08 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-11-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-09 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-11-09 0:00 ` Advice, or *Advice*? (was: Binary files vs Portablity vs Ada) Ted Dennison
1999-11-10 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-11-09 0:00 ` Binary files vs Portablity vs Ada Robert Dewar
1999-11-08 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-11-09 0:00 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
1999-11-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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