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From: "Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com>
Subject: Re: OS Bindings (was: Where is the elusive jump command?)
Date: 2000/04/13
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Robert Dewar wrote
>That may be OK, multiple precision integers can be useful,
>so long as you do not go berserk and require that I be
>able to use them for case indexes, subscripts, entryu
>family indexes, loop variables, etc.


Agree. I think Ada could do well in encryption applications if there were
general support for this. E.g. arithmetic, and, or, xor,  conversion to
integer, simple math functions. Most other uses could be done by converting to
integer.


Greetings,