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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com>
Subject: Re: output of enumeration types
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 18:57:48 GMT
Date: 2005-04-19T18:57:48+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Mwc9e.10836$lP1.5710@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d41k8g$de4$1@achot.icm.edu.pl>

Staszek Goldstein wrote:

> Thanks for the idea, it is slightly more elegant than my solution. 
> Nevertheless, I have the impression that this is a deficiency of Ada which 
> should be dealt with. A solution could be kind of "universal_character" 
> type, freely convertible to any character type. 

Implement your Roman numbers problem in another, widely used, imperative 
language, preferably one from the C family, first. Then come back and do 
it in Ada. Let us know if you still have complaints about Ada's support 
for this kind of thing.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Help! Help! I'm being repressed!"
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-04-19 18:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-18 22:04 output of enumeration types Staszek Goldstein
2005-04-18 22:35 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-04-18 22:43   ` Staszek Goldstein
2005-04-18 23:35   ` Staszek Goldstein
2005-04-19  0:07     ` Stephen Leake
2005-04-19  0:43       ` Staszek Goldstein
2005-04-19  4:56         ` Martin Krischik
2005-04-19 18:57         ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
2005-04-20  0:40           ` Staszek Goldstein
2005-04-20  1:38             ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-04-19  0:33     ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-04-19  0:51       ` Staszek Goldstein
2005-04-19 23:40         ` Stephen Leake
2005-04-20  0:17           ` Staszek Goldstein
2005-04-20  9:53             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-04-20 23:16             ` Stephen Leake
2005-04-19  0:59       ` Staszek Goldstein
2005-04-19  1:54 ` Robert A Duff
2005-04-19  3:03   ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-04-19 10:34   ` output and digits Staszek Goldstein
2005-04-20 13:56     ` Robert A Duff
2005-04-20 19:53       ` Staszek Goldstein
2005-04-19  3:04 ` output of enumeration types Steve
2005-04-19  7:31 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-04-19  7:49   ` Szymon Guz
2005-04-19  8:11     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-04-19 11:26     ` Marius Amado Alves
2005-04-19 12:56       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-04-19 13:57         ` Marius Amado Alves
2005-04-19 16:05       ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-04-19 17:55         ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-04-19 21:39           ` Florian Weimer
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