From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3132fa2f1b036425 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-31 08:28:19 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.stueberl.de!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!news.uni-stuttgart.de!not-for-mail From: Peter Hermann Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: number_base Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 16:28:19 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: sinus.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de X-Trace: news.uni-stuttgart.de 1067617699 15915 129.69.118.70 (31 Oct 2003 16:28:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@news.uni-stuttgart.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 16:28:19 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/1.5.12-20020311 ("Toxicity") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.21-cd-586-xfs (i686)) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1873 Date: 2003-10-31T16:28:19+00:00 List-Id: Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote: > And it's so easy to "roll own code" for the slight minority that needs it that it isn't worth putting into the standard. > This is typically a "nice to have" feature. We had hundreds of "nice to have" features for Ada95 that didn't make it into the > standard, simply because one-week-work * hundreds-of-features would have meant that we wouldn't have Ada95 compilers yet. You are right, of course. And you may have seen my priority setting to "low". OTOH, one should not underestimate(neglect) the promoting effect of a potential "oh cool, with Ada this is done so easy" -- --Peter Hermann(49)0711-685-3611 fax3758 ica2ph@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de --Pfaffenwaldring 27 Raum 114, D-70569 Stuttgart Uni Computeranwendungen --http://www.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de/homes/ph/ --Team Ada: "C'mon people let the world begin" (Paul McCartney)