From: Martin <martin@thedowies.com>
Subject: Re: Standard missing a 'Negative' subtype?...
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 09:49:10 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2013-09-15T09:49:10-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <942ab9bc-7f1c-4738-9122-645f77113020@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lyli2y5yef.fsf@pushface.org>
On Sunday, September 15, 2013 8:36:56 AM UTC+1, Simon Wright wrote:
> "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org> writes:
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> > Natural and Positive are used in the definition of
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> > other things in the ARM; nothing needed Negative (or any other
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> > subtypes).
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> "because they are needed in other parts of the ARM" shouldn't be the
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> only criterion! "what users [i.e., we developers] would find useful"
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> should be considered too - otherwise we wouldn't have Ada.Containers,
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> for example.
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> That said, Negative seems to come well below the bar.
Sure, and adding it now might cause all sorts of issues...
...just a shame it wasn't considered from the start...if only for symmetry!
I'm still waiting on Ada.Networks...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-15 16:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-14 8:49 Standard missing a 'Negative' subtype? Martin
2013-09-14 9:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-09-14 19:13 ` mockturtle
2013-10-01 2:45 ` J Kimball
2013-09-14 19:57 ` Shark8
2013-09-15 3:28 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2013-09-15 7:36 ` Simon Wright
2013-09-15 16:07 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2013-09-15 16:49 ` Martin [this message]
2013-09-15 17:51 ` J-P. Rosen
2013-09-16 17:44 ` Adam Beneschan
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