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From: Robin Vowels <robin.vowels@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Does Ada need elemental functions to make it suitable for
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Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 17:53:02 -0700 (PDT)
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On Jul 30, 1:51=A0am, "J-P. Rosen" <ro...@adalog.fr> wrote:
> Le 29/07/2012 15:53, Robin Vowels a =E9crit :>> Note that in any case the=
 Sin you are calling is not specially known to the
> >> > compiler,
> > but in PL/I and Fortran it is.
>
> Which implies that you can work only with predefined types.
>
> One of the great benefits of Ada (for floating point types) is the
> ability to chose accurracy and range,

Which we can do in PL/I and Fortran.

> and let the compiler find the
> appropriate underlying hardware type.

Which is what happens with PL/I.

> Most machines have more than float and double!