Re: Negative float problem

["Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam@spam.com>]

Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote:

> Since you are new to Ada, there is something that you must understand. 
> The Ada language has been designed in such a way that either a construct 
> always works, and works the same with every implementation, or does not 
> compile. There is no space for "sometimes", "maybe", "depends", and 
> other things like that that are common in other languages.

Mostly. There are a number of "implementation defined" parts of the language. 
What's the range of type Integer? At least that of a 16-bit signed 
twos-complement integer, but often more. Luckily, you can define your own 
integer types that match your application's needs, and not have to rely on the 
predefined numeric types, as you have to do in most other languages.

SPARK gets rid of most implementation-defined things, but type Integer is still 
in there ...

-- 
Jeff Carter
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