Re: Another problem with stream reading.

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

True. From experience with blah blah blah versions of saturated math, I
*know* this is useful in real world applications. However, I don't know how
*generally* useful it might be - just useful within certain problem domains.
(It has applications wherever you have some object with known limits that
cannot be exceeded - such as an actuator that has a fixed range of motion or
a graphics screen that has some fixed boundaries. Elsewhere? Only experience
could tell...)

The problem with things like saturated math or unsigned integers is that
without direct support in the compiler, your garden variety cobbled together
solution starts having some serious performance penalties. Not necessarily a
big deal in workstation apps, but usually a big deal for the folks that need
it the most. A modified version of GNAT? That's always a possibility that
could prove interesting - but who would do it? ACT won't unless one or more
of their customers starts asking for it and I certainly don't have the time
(or commercial need, at the moment) to go figure out how to do it myself.
Maybe there's enough GNAT users out there interested in it, but unless they
develop a group consensus on it, it isn't likely to make it into the
compiler.

MDC
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Marin David Condic
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Pace Micro Technology Americas    www.pacemicro.com
Enabling the digital revolution
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"Larry Kilgallen" <Kilgallen@SpamCop.net> wrote in message
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> What would be compelling is real-world of experience of how useful the
> blah blah blah version has been, or the experimental version of GNAT.