Re: Are there noticable differences in Ada acceptance by country?

[gpriv@axonx.com]

On Mar 21, 12:39 pm, Simon Wright <simon.j.wri...@mac.com> wrote:
> gp...@axonx.com writes:
> > From my own C experience: using code from different sources X and Y
> > coordinates in function calls were in different order: foo(x,y);
> > boo(height, width), etc. Easy to overlook.
>
> That was my point (I expect I failed to make it properly): if you use
> a record for Coordinate, your chance of getting the components the
> wrong way round is hugely reduced, and I don't think the added value
> of making the H & V components different _types_ is worth the added
> cost.

Is there any runtime cost of using new type if no range is defined?  I
thought that

type X_T is new float;

should be equivalent to float and have effect only at compile time.

George.