From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10261c,90121986704b5776 X-Google-Attributes: gid10261c,public X-Google-Thread: 10c950,90121986704b5776 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c950,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: "Ed Falis" Subject: Re: Yet another stupid language war (was: ... the only languages you need!!) Date: 1997/10/31 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 286289182 Sender: news@sd.aonix.com (USENET News Admin @flash) X-Nntp-Posting-Host: 192.157.137.66 References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> <3456e71b.3833189@news.mindspring.com> <3458D116.2D34@pseserv3.fw.hac.com> <63anc7$75p$1@darla.visi.com> <345947D2.D20EF8E9@horvath.com> <3459DA2C.14792107@horvath.com> X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Organization: Aonix, San Diego, CA, USA Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.lang.pascal.ansi-iso,comp.lang.pascal.misc Date: 1997-10-31T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Bob Horvath wrote in message <3459DA2C.14792107@horvath.com>... > >I had forgotten about the implementation dependencies with the INTEGER type in Ada >because you would be a fool to use it when you can so easily create an integer type >using a range constraint. > But it goes further than this, because the standard package Interfaces provides for size-specifed signed and unsigned integer types (e.g. Unsigned_32, Integer_16). - Ed