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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Quality systems (Was: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the
   Ada mandate, and why it collapsed and died))
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 09:09:14 +0200
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John R. Strohm wrote:

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> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message
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>> Robert A Duff wrote:
>>
>> > The design team actually went back and forth several times between two
>> > solutions: a kludgy "magic" package that supports unsigned types of
>> > certain sizes, pretty much like C, and a first-class type with syntax
>> > and relatively general semantics (including non-binary modulii).
>> > I think perhaps the magic package was the better solution.
>>
>> What about:
>>
>> 1. arbitrary modulii without add, or, xor, not.
> 
> Without addition, you by definition don't have a modular type.  The whole
> point of a modular type is that it is characterized by wraparound
> (modular) addition.

Sorry, it was typo error, I meant *and*.

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