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From: Colin Paul Gloster <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org>
Subject: Re: Imagine Ada with Fewer Attributes
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 13:27:01 +0000
Date: 2010-05-17T13:27:01+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1005171323120.3306@Bluewhite64.example.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hsn07m$acs$1@news.albasani.net>

On Sat, 15 May 2010, Frank J. Lhota sent:

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|[..] For example, rather than having an 'Image, 'Value, 'Succ, etc.         |
|attribute for the scalar types, why not simply have Image, Value, Succ, etc.|
|functions for the scalar types, that the user can override?                 |
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Functions are not needed for this. VHDL (a family of dialects of Ada
83) has user-defined attributes.



      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-05-17 13:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-15 20:29 Imagine Ada with Fewer Attributes Frank J. Lhota
2010-05-15 20:46 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-05-16  7:11 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-05-16 15:31 ` Robert A Duff
2010-05-17 13:27 ` Colin Paul Gloster [this message]
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