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From: Vinzent Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 22:33:28 +0200
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Bill Findlay wrote:

>On 16/6/03 20:09, in article bcl4o8$kkj68$1@ID-175126.news.dfncis.de,
>"Vinzent Hoefler" <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com> wrote:
>
>> |x :=3D <> < <> + 1;
>>=20
>> On the first glance I can't find any idea where this makes sense. The
>> result type should fit (so it should be boolean, I'd say) unless
>> someone has made use of a quite strange overloading of the
>> "<"-Operator...
>>=20
>> What am I missing here?
>
>Overloading is one possibility, but this expression is feasible as a
>*sub*expression of a valid RHS, e.g.
>
>X :=3D Boolean'Pos(<> < <> + 1); -- see how flexible idem notation is? =
8-)

Huh? ... Hmm.

Well, actually it indeed could make sense with a modular integer
type... :-)


Vinzent.