From: "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>
Subject: Re: was Re: Ada / C++ comparison paper anymore
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 12:51:29 -0500
Date: 2001-12-21T17:51:29+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9vvsr1$iek$1@nh.pace.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3C2374EE.956EF43B@adaworks.com
One excuse for this sort of counter package would be if you need to control
the behavior of the counter's math. Maybe the only good excuse I can think
of is if you want the counters to saturate at some min/max level. Back in
Ada83, it would have made sense if you wanted wraparound semantics for the
counter. (Of course, now that we have unsigned integers, this is not such a
big deal.)
Otherwise, it would seem to me that it is overkill. And if Ada0x creates
some saturated math numeric types, we could get rid of the above case as
well... :-)
MDC
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"Richard Riehle" <richard@adaworks.com> wrote in message
news:3C2374EE.956EF43B@adaworks.com...
>
> It may seem like a little bit of overkill, but worked out quite well
> for the problem at hand. It was useful all through the project
> when some kind of counter was needed. It was easy to abuse
> its behavior. This is not the kind of shorthand that a += might provide,
> but it was no hardship for those using it.
>
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Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-17 10:22 Ada / C++ comparison paper Martin Dowie
2001-12-17 14:42 ` Frode Tenneboe
2001-12-17 22:07 ` Hyman Rosen
2001-12-17 22:34 ` David C. Hoos
2001-12-17 22:37 ` Marin David Condic
2001-12-18 0:54 ` Ed Falis
2001-12-18 9:30 ` martin.m.dowie
2001-12-18 14:49 ` Marin David Condic
2001-12-18 17:51 ` Hyman Rosen
2001-12-19 16:10 ` Greg C
2001-12-20 14:41 ` Hyman Rosen
2001-12-20 20:16 ` Greg C
2001-12-19 20:44 ` Wes Groleau
2001-12-19 20:47 ` Ed Falis
2001-12-20 18:16 ` Ted Dennison
2001-12-20 19:12 ` Richard Riehle
2001-12-18 1:16 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-12-17 22:52 ` Matthew Heaney
2001-12-18 15:47 ` Hyman Rosen
2001-12-18 16:20 ` Pat Rogers
2001-12-18 17:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2001-12-18 17:28 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-12-18 19:40 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-12-18 20:25 ` Hyman Rosen
2001-12-19 0:53 ` was Re: Ada / C++ comparison paper anymore Mark Lundquist
2001-12-19 1:47 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-12-19 18:20 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-12-19 19:39 ` Patrick Hohmeyer
2001-12-19 19:38 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-12-19 20:51 ` Patrick Hohmeyer
2001-12-20 17:56 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-12-20 18:48 ` Patrick Hohmeyer
2001-12-20 19:20 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-12-21 3:16 ` Implicit instantiation (was Re: Ada / C++ comparison paper anymore) Mark Lundquist
2001-12-21 3:12 ` Implicit instantiation (was Re: was " Mark Lundquist
2001-12-21 2:55 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-12-20 20:22 ` was Re: Ada / C++ comparison paper anymore Ted Dennison
2001-12-20 20:57 ` Marin David Condic
2001-12-21 17:44 ` Richard Riehle
2001-12-21 17:51 ` Marin David Condic [this message]
2001-12-19 18:20 ` Ada / C++ comparison paper Mark Lundquist
2001-12-20 20:27 ` Ted Dennison
2001-12-20 20:59 ` Marin David Condic
2001-12-21 14:26 ` Ted Dennison
2001-12-21 14:32 ` Marin David Condic
2001-12-21 15:11 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2001-12-20 22:30 ` tmoran
2001-12-20 22:36 ` Marin David Condic
2001-12-21 14:23 ` Ted Dennison
2001-12-21 18:46 ` tmoran
2001-12-21 19:09 ` Ted Dennison
2001-12-21 2:46 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-12-21 14:28 ` Ted Dennison
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