Re: Problem trying to implement generics.

["Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com>]

It seems to be a thing C programmers are more hung up on than is really
necessary. Certainly some domains use bit shifts more than others (writing
low level code for device drivers, etc., vs accounting software.) Even so, I
find there are really rather few times I've *needed* to do bit shifting -
usually there are other ways of accomplishing the same thing. I'm glad Ada
lets you do it, but I don't think it needs a more convenient operator. (One
*could* redefine ">" and "<" to yield bit shift results...) Besides, the <<
and >> symbols are used for labels to which one does a goto and there may be
some syntactic reason it would be tough to define them as operators. (I'd
really hate to have to retrofit all the thousands of lines of Ada code I
have that use labels in order to accommodate a new bit-shift operator. :-)

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"Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Are bit shifts really a commonly occurring operation in Ada?  I can only
> think of think of a handful of time I have needed to use them in my five
> years of using Ada.
>