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From: Peter Chapin <PChapin@vtc.vsc.edu>
Subject: Re: Ada 2012 Corrigendum
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 07:45:48 -0400
Date: 2014-09-12T07:45:48-04:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D_ednawzcK5xQY_J4p2dnAA@giganews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nRsQv.117415$412.60522@fx30.iad>

On 2014-09-11 23:26, Shark8 wrote:

> (2) An aspect indicating a function which is not-only pure, but static
> -- intended to be computed at compile-time; this could, for example, be
> used to make the formulae in the endian-independent paper (
> http://www.sigada.org/ada_letters/sept2005/Endian-Independent%20Paper.pdf )
> directly usable.

It might be a good idea to review what C++ 2011 is doing with constexpr
if you want to go down a path like this. Any proposal of this nature
should take advantage of the whatever prior art exists in C++.

Peter



  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-12 11:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-12  3:26 Ada 2012 Corrigendum Shark8
2014-09-12 11:45 ` Peter Chapin [this message]
2014-09-12 12:48 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-09-12 19:09 ` Shark8
2014-09-12 18:51   ` Robert A Duff
2014-09-12 19:08   ` Robert A Duff
2014-10-04  0:32     ` Randy Brukardt
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