From: Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
Subject: Re: Any good package for mathematical function in Ada?
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2020 15:54:26 -0700
Date: 2020-06-05T15:54:26-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y2p186ot.fsf@nightsong.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: rb2p52$qvl$1@gioia.aioe.org
"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
> As for GMP specifically, I think that arbitrary precision numeric
> types must be an integral part of Ada. Unfortunately, this would
> introduce same mess Unbounded_String did. So, for now, I would not
> push for them until the language type system mature to accommodate
> them smoothly.
What happened with Unbounded_String if you don't mind telling the story?
I wasn't around for it.
I can see why unbounded strings and numbers could be a problem for Ada,
but that's because of storage management consequences, not the type
system.
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2020-05-31 10:46 Any good package for mathematical function in Ada? reinert
2020-05-31 11:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-06-01 8:17 ` reinert
2020-05-31 23:25 ` Jerry
2020-06-01 8:24 ` reinert
2020-06-01 10:19 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-06-01 10:48 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2020-06-01 11:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-06-01 11:52 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2020-06-01 13:37 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-06-02 1:48 ` Jerry
2020-06-05 22:49 ` Randy Brukardt
2020-06-05 22:54 ` Paul Rubin [this message]
2020-06-06 7:06 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-06-06 13:58 ` AdaMagica
2020-06-01 10:43 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-06-02 1:51 ` Jerry
2020-06-03 15:07 ` reinert
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