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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
Subject: Re: New limited range type?
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 18:18:57 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2003-11-07T18:18:57+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bognmh$s42$1@sparta.btinternet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1068224385.790621@master.nyc.kbcfp.com

"Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message
news:1068224385.790621@master.nyc.kbcfp.com...
> Martin Dowie wrote:
> > Standard operator precedent rules should apply - I can't see
> > that as being outragous?
>
> But Ada doesn't define operator evaluation order, so this would
> be a major change in the language. (Not a bad one, just big.)

Well it 'kind of' does in that the order must be "an allowed result
for the left-to-right association".

You could argue that the case "A := B + C - D," for these 'limited
range' types _can_only_ be equivilent to "A := (B + C) - D;".






  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-07 18:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-07 15:51 New limited range type? Martin Dowie
2003-11-07 15:57 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-11-07 16:20   ` Martin Dowie
2003-11-07 16:36     ` Stephane Richard
2003-11-07 16:59     ` Hyman Rosen
2003-11-07 18:18       ` Martin Dowie [this message]
2003-11-07 20:11         ` Larry Hazel
2003-11-07 22:40           ` Martin Dowie
2003-11-07 23:31             ` Larry Hazel
2003-11-12  8:22       ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2003-11-12 15:00         ` Hyman Rosen
2003-11-12 15:34           ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-11-12 17:37             ` tmoran
2003-11-07 18:19   ` Mike Silva
2003-11-07 19:03   ` Marin David Condic
2003-11-07 18:05 ` Mike Silva
2003-11-08 21:58   ` Nick Roberts
2003-11-09 14:34     ` Martin Dowie
2003-11-11  5:13       ` Nick Roberts
2003-11-11 10:18         ` Martin Dowie
2003-11-11 10:35         ` Martin Dowie
2003-11-11 10:41           ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2003-11-11 12:37             ` Marin David Condic
2003-11-11 14:19             ` Martin Dowie
2003-11-11 12:34           ` Marin David Condic
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