Re: First time Ada has let me down (recipe)

[Guillaume <guifo@wanadoo.fr>]

> Next morning I tried to implement the solution and couldn't find the Ada
> equivalent of C's bit-wise & operater.  According to my "Ada as a 2nd
> language" book, the Ada reserved word "AND" only works for boolean types,
> not integer types.  I got the impression that it was up to the programmer
> to write his own bitwise ANDs/ORs/XORs, etc (it wouldn't be hard).

The RM is your friend :

 http://www.adahome.com/LRM/83/RM/rm83html/lrm-04-05.html#4.5.1

The recipe :
 * unchecked conversion to a packed array of booleans
 * bitwise operation on the array
 * unchecked conversion the other way

It's not as clean as the solution provided in Ada95 with "mod integers", as 
for one basic operation you're getting two extra copies (the two unchecked 
conversions).

Hope this helps !

        Guillaume