Re: C/C++ programmer giving Ada95 a chance -- writing an emulator.

["Ken Garlington" <Ken.Garlington@computer.org>]

"jross" <rem.jross@rem.codemecca.com> wrote in message
news:38e19656.17008608@news.shreve.net...
> Ah! Access types and the ability to Initialize an array with record
> values.  Actually the entire array can be a constant (don't know if
> that would help with optimizing the compiled code).

I think in my example I used a constant table. You might be right if it
helped
with optimization, also. However, I didn't define the table as constant
because of
optimization -- I defined it as constant because logically I probably won't
change it
dynamically, and if some part of the code attempted to do so, I'd probably
want to
know about it. That sort of checking built into the language is very
powerful, and
you should make use of it whenever you can. This sort of thought process is
going
to help you understand the dfference between using the predefined types
(Integer,
Float, etc.) and user-defined types (e.g. type Opcode is new Integer?)
later.