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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Disallowing Pre-Defined Operations
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In article <38EC160F.E2A13F44@quadruscorp.com>,
  "Marin D. Condic" <mcondic-nospam@quadruscorp.com> wrote:

> I've voted for it before, but I'll mention it again: Integer
and Real
> (Fixed & Float) types that saturate on overflow.


Why does this need a language feature? This is the sort of thing
that is perfectly easy to program in Ada now. Sure you might
get a little bit more efficient implementation if it was built
in, but compilers could already do that by use of Intrinsic
conventions, I see no reason for a new language feature here.

Does anyone have any experience with saturating numeric types
in existing Ada programs?


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