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From: "martin.m.dowie" <martin.m.dowie@ntlworld.com>
Subject: Re: Refactoring and Ada
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 16:06:20 -0000
Date: 2002-02-08T16:06:20+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <UHS88.8818$as2.1569475@news6-win.server.ntlworld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4519e058.0202080714.1bf916bb@posting.google.com

> > How about removing the 'confirming enumeration rep specs' that
> > are no longer necessary in Ada95?
[snip]
>
> They weren't necessary in Ada 83 either were they?

My understanding was that there was no requirement for a compiler
to select a contiguous range of values from 0. So while I never actually
came across a compiler that didn't do this, for the sake of portability
they were always added where we cared about the underlying rep.

Thankfully, we don't have to add this 'noise' anymore :-) but there
must be thousands of lines of code like this around cluttering up code.
From memory Robert Dewar once mentioned that these statements
were actually dangerous (my word not his!) in Ada95. Presumably as a
compiler may mistake them for some sort of 'special case' and produce
some less than optimal code.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-02-08 16:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-01 15:13 Refactoring and Ada Paul Anderson
2002-02-02 17:48 ` Nick Roberts
2002-02-02 20:36   ` Pat Rogers
2002-02-03  0:21     ` Nick Roberts
2002-02-03 13:53       ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-03 19:23         ` Nick Roberts
2002-02-04  2:17           ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-04 20:48             ` Nick Roberts
2002-02-04 22:31               ` Pat Rogers
2002-02-04 22:43                 ` Marin David Condic
2002-02-06  2:51                 ` Nick Roberts
2002-02-03 18:50       ` Simon Wright
2002-02-04  4:32     ` Richard Riehle
2002-02-04 12:28       ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2002-02-04 17:03         ` Richard Riehle
2002-02-06 17:19           ` Robert A Duff
2002-02-04 17:59       ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-04 18:50         ` Pascal Obry
2002-02-05  1:07           ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-05  1:44         ` Richard Riehle
2002-02-06 17:42           ` Robert A Duff
2002-02-06 17:32         ` Robert A Duff
2002-02-07  8:45         ` Dr. Michael Paus
2002-02-07 13:54           ` Pat Rogers
2002-02-03 13:48   ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-03 19:38     ` Nick Roberts
2002-02-04  2:20       ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-08 21:21       ` Paul Anderson
2002-02-03  9:45 ` Volkert
2002-02-04  0:06 ` Refactoring and Ada (tool I'd like to have...) David Emery
2002-02-08  9:24 ` Refactoring and Ada Martin Dowie
2002-02-08 15:15   ` Ted Dennison
2002-02-08 15:52     ` Pat Rogers
2002-02-08 16:07       ` OT : " martin.m.dowie
2002-02-08 17:11         ` Pat Rogers
2002-02-09 19:46           ` martin.m.dowie
2002-02-09 23:04             ` Pat Rogers
2002-02-10 13:57               ` Martin Dowie
2002-02-08 16:06     ` martin.m.dowie [this message]
2002-02-08 17:07       ` Pat Rogers
2002-02-09 19:48         ` martin.m.dowie
2002-02-09 23:05           ` Pat Rogers
2002-02-10  1:30     ` Marc A. Criley
2002-02-10  2:58       ` tmoran
2002-02-11 15:27       ` Marin David Condic
2002-02-12 19:16         ` Simon Wright
2002-02-15 19:43           ` Marin David Condic
2002-02-15 20:33           ` Matthew Heaney
2002-02-15 21:40             ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-02-19 16:54               ` Matthew Heaney
2002-02-19 19:39                 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-02-20  4:23                   ` Richard Riehle
2002-02-20  5:20                     ` Mark Biggar
2002-02-20  9:58                     ` Pat Rogers
2002-02-20 17:14                       ` Matthew Heaney
2002-02-20 17:18                         ` Pat Rogers
2002-02-20 18:08                           ` Matthew Heaney
2002-02-20 22:12                             ` Pat Rogers
2002-02-23 22:48                             ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-21  0:41                           ` Randy Brukardt
2002-02-21  1:31                             ` Pat Rogers
2002-02-22 14:37                             ` Pat Rogers
2002-02-22 21:23                               ` Randy Brukardt
2002-02-23 23:04                                 ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-25 20:26                                   ` Randy Brukardt
2002-02-23 23:21                                 ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-23 22:58                             ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-23 22:55                     ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-26  1:05                       ` Nick Roberts
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-02-05  6:15 Christoph Grein
2002-02-07 11:26 Christoph Grein
2002-02-07 18:31 ` Dr. Michael Paus
2002-02-08 12:45   ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-08 17:20     ` Dr. Michael Paus
2002-02-20  6:19 Christoph Grein
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