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From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)
Subject: Re: Why Ada is not the Commercial Lang of  Choice
Date: 1997/06/19
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Date: 1997-06-19T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <5o9eca$aoi$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>,
Dale Stanbrough  <dale@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU> wrote:
>We shouldn't of course forget the option of using underscores in numeric
>literals, which to my continual amazement, no other language that i know of
>has!

Yeah, that's one of my pet peeves, too.  How many times have I read code
containing 10000000, and I have to use a magnifying glass to count, to
see whether that's a million, or ten million!  10_000_000 is so vastly
much more readable.

>    Mem_Map: Integer;
>    for Mem_Map'Address use 16#B010_0040#;

By the way, this will typically need a To_Address call, since in many
implementations, type Address is not an integer type.  The RM recommends
a private type, which I think is sensible.

- Bob