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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1dd28d5040ded1f8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-08 09:32:01 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!out.nntp.be!propagator2-SanJose!propagator-SanJose!in.nntp.be!news-in-sanjose!newsfeed.onecall.net!chcgil2-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!news.binc.net!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Announce: Grace project site operational Date: 8 May 2002 11:31:44 -0500 Organization: LJK Software Message-ID: References: <3CD88FBD.4070706@telepath.com> <3CD91E31.1060004@telepath.com> <3CD94E63.3050607@mail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: eisner.encompasserve.org X-Trace: grandcanyon.binc.net 1020875506 811 192.135.80.34 (8 May 2002 16:31:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@binc.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 16:31:46 +0000 (UTC) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23727 Date: 2002-05-08T11:31:44-05:00 List-Id: In article <3CD94E63.3050607@mail.com>, Hyman Rosen writes: > The original poster also said that C++ programmers tend to dismiss > things like this as not useful enough to bother with, even though > they can put together classes that could simulate such separate > integer types. I'm a C++ programmer, and I agree with that, so I > thought I would just strew some more complication into the path of > the GRACE lists for the Ada programmers who do care :-) And as an Ada programmer, I thank you for that diligence. I have a lot of "count" types in a program I am working on currently, and I would appreciate it if packages provided that, in the spirit of Ada. And I understand that the spirit of C++ might be different.