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,c971df1c3d047387 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-09-06 03:40:40 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-east!supernews.com!news-feed.riddles.org.uk!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!newsfeed.mesh.ad.jp!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!iad-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: getpid(), atoi(), time functions in Ada 95 Message-ID: References: <8p4mqi$capp9$1@ID-25716.news.cis.dfn.de> Organization: LJK Software Date: 6 Sep 2000 07:40:23 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.44.122.34 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 968236827 216.44.122.34 (Wed, 06 Sep 2000 10:40:27 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 10:40:27 GMT Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:519 Date: 2000-09-06T07:40:23-05:00 List-Id: In article <8p4mqi$capp9$1@ID-25716.news.cis.dfn.de>, "Nick Roberts" writes: > With respect, do questions like this need, perhaps, to carry one of the > following riders? > > - I am not a student. > > - I am a student, but this is not part of my coursework. > > - I am a student, and this is part of my coursework, but I have exhausted > every other avenue of research within my educational facility. I think, rather, "I have looked in the second edition of Ada for Lefties by Author Name, in particular at chapter 25 where I would expect to find the answer to the following question." That gives the opportunity for feedback to the student regarding why the choice of chapter was wrong, or the choice of book was wrong, or even feedback to the author regarding reader expectations.