ARGUMENT_ERROR in NUMWG elementary functions spec

ARGUMENT_ERROR in NUMWG elementary functions spec

[dritz]

Yes, the specification for GENERIC_ELEMENTARY_FUNCTIONS defines an exception
called ARGUMENT_ERROR, which is raised when an argument to one of the functions
is outside the specified domain (for example, a negative argument to SQRT).

PostScript files for most of the proposed standards to come out of NUMWG and
A-ENWG (SIGAda Numerics Working Group and Ada-Europe Numerics Working Group),
along with accompanying rationales, are accessible by anonymous ftp in director
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pub/ada/numwg-documents on Internet host info.mcs.anl.gov.  The ones currently
in place are:
   gef-proposal.ps      GENERIC_ELEMENTARY_FUNCTIONS  (approved by NRG and WG9)
   gef-rationale.ps     "
   gpf-proposal.ps      GENERIC_PRIMITIVE_FUNCTIONS   (approved by NRG and WG9)
   gpf-rationale.ps     "
   gcef-proposal.ps     GENERIC_COMPLEX_ELEMENTARY_FUNCTIONS   (still in NUMWG)
   gcef-rationale.ps    "
The proposal for packages of real and complex type declarations and basic
operations (including vector and matrix types), which will be called
gct-proposal.ps (for GENERIC_COMPLEX_TYPES, one of the packages covered), is no
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yet in place and will not be for perhaps a few weeks, but its companion
rationale, gct-rationale.ps, *is* there now.  All these documents (and more)
will be in a special issue of Ada Letters edited by Jon Squire of Westinghouse,
planned for this fall.

Ken Dritz
Argonne National Laboratory