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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.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-06-05 22:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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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