From: "Nick Roberts" <nickroberts@callnetuk.com>
Subject: Epistemology [was: Bit operations in Ada (one's complements and sum)]
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 06:22:57 +0100
Date: 2000-09-09T06:22:57+01:00 [thread overview]
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First, I wonder if Eric was talking about ones-complement arithmetic with
carry? If so, then (I think!) standard Ada doesn't have such an operation
explicitly built-in.
Second, forgive my musing on this subject, but it did just flicker across my
mind, that a 'bit string' is indeed a kind of string, but ... it's also a
set, but ... it's also an integer, but ... it's also a JPEG picture, but ...
well, you get the idea. Things are not what they are, are they? Just a
thought.
BTW probably "type Bit_String is private;" in the package spec.
--
Nick Roberts
http://www.AdaOS.org
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2000-09-08 23:34 Bit operations in Ada (one's complements and sum) ebresie
2000-09-09 0:01 ` Ted Dennison
2000-09-09 5:22 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
2000-09-09 20:18 ` Epistemology [was: Bit operations in Ada (one's complements and sum)] Robert Dewar
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