From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Ada facility for determining dimensions (height/width) for display/print character string?
Date: 30 Oct 2002 04:59:41 -0600
Date: 2002-10-30T04:59:41-06:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: d7Fv9.159526$qM2.49673@sccrnsc02
In article <d7Fv9.159526$qM2.49673@sccrnsc02>, tmoran@acm.org writes:
>>Does Ada have a facility for determining the dimensions (height and =
>>width) that it will take to display/print a given string of characters?
> Yes. When an Ada program is controlling a skywriter, characters are
> 100 meters square.
But don't think your program will automatically port to the new
generation of 200 meters square skywriters, as you may get an
arithmetic overflow and if your program does not handle the exception
correctly you will spill skywriter ink all over the sports stadium :-)
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2002-10-29 23:48 ` Ada facility for determining dimensions (height/width) for display/print character string? tmoran
2002-10-30 10:59 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2002-11-01 3:17 RussJohnson@frontiernet.net
2002-11-01 2:37 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-11-05 11:21 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-11-12 20:54 ` Russell L Johnson
2002-11-06 8:06 ` Matthew Baulch
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