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From: tmoran@acm.org
Subject: Re: overriding "*", was Re: What's the ICFP Programming contest?
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 17:10:29 GMT
Date: 2003-07-02T17:10:29+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9mEMa.19277$926.1303@sccrnsc03> (raw)
In-Reply-To: vg3t25qrukd0b@corp.supernews.com

>That's a well-known feature of Ada 95 (and it is incompatible with Ada
>83). The problem is that you can't hide the mixed fixed point multiply
>(any fixed * any fixed -> universal fixed), so it is ambiguous anywhere
>other than in the children of your fixed point package.
  Why did it work in Ada 83, and why was it changed?



  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-02 17:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-26  1:30 What's the ICFP Programming contest? tmoran
2003-06-26  8:24 ` Preben Randhol
2003-06-27 20:37   ` Michael Erdmann
2003-06-28  0:21     ` tmoran
2003-06-28  7:33       ` Michael Erdmann
2003-06-29  6:47         ` Hyman Rosen
2003-06-29 22:37           ` tmoran
2003-07-01  5:58             ` overriding "*", was " tmoran
2003-07-01 20:52               ` Randy Brukardt
2003-07-02 17:10                 ` tmoran [this message]
2003-07-02 18:13                   ` Randy Brukardt
2003-07-03  7:55               ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-07-04  7:01                 ` Robert I. Eachus
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