Re: Newbe compile problems

[Sazonov Cyril <cyril@geol.spb.su>]

Robert wrote me:

> Both points are quite wrong, even for Ada 83. There is no package
> Text_IO.Float_IO in either Ada 83 or Ada 95 (this is a generic package,
> not a package), and in any case, surely since the questioner is using
> Ada 95, we should suggest the proper package name Ada.Float_Text_IO.

I see. But I meant that one should use the generic package to create his own
example for the data type he is using. The thing is that all the Ada compilers
I've got were, not to say a bad words, a little bit strange... There were no
such usefull extensions based on the standard packages. At any rate the
package you mean, as I understood you, should be referenced with prefix "Ada."

> For the second point, 0.0 is of course a legal float literal, I am not
> quite sure what leads to this misconception.

Yes, it was my mistake, there's no nessesety to use exponential notation. But
somewhere ( at Wegner's  description of the preliminary version of the language
may be ? ) I've seen stressed difference betwean the notation of the FLOAT and
FIXED literals. At any rate I suppose the use of the exponetial part for the
FLOAT literals is a good style.

> Finally Cyril, why not get hold of GNAT so that you have access to Ada 95.
> you might want to contact Sergey Rybin at Moscow State University for
> information on how to obtain GNAT (he certainly has appropriate internet
> connections available there, and could perhaps supply a copy to you).

It is a very good idea. I hoped to find some Ada users in Russia, but just 2
months ago I had no access to the Internet mail ( mind that Russia is a very
peculiar country, where ones who work have nothing, just no instruments ) and
so had no means to look for them -- FIDOnet doesn't help in it, and my old
cheif supposed that The Way is C & DOS & Windows ;(

Robert, wouldn't you be so kind to tell me the E-mail of Sergey Rybin?

Merry X-mas !

Best wishes from Russia !                                      Cyril ( CS )