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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,9ce828272f314121 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: output of enumeration types References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 18:57:48 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.240.192.134 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net 1113937068 4.240.192.134 (Tue, 19 Apr 2005 11:57:48 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 11:57:48 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10579 Date: 2005-04-19T18:57:48+00:00 List-Id: 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 67