From: Duke Normandin <dukeofperl@ml1.net>
Subject: Noob question: universal_integer type
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 23:15:19 GMT
Date: 2010-05-21T23:15:19+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <buEJn.4423$Z6.586@edtnps82> (raw)
Coronado's Ada tutorial - Chapt3
[quote]
The constant 17 is of a very special type defined by Ada as type
"universal_integer" which can be combined with any of the integer types
without specific conversion.
[/quote]
Let me get this right... if I use an undeclared integer in an expression,
Ada will "deem it" to be a "universal_integer" and not choke at
compile-time?
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Duke
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2010-05-21 23:15 Duke Normandin [this message]
2010-05-21 23:33 ` Noob question: universal_integer type Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-05-21 23:34 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-05-21 23:37 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2010-05-22 2:04 ` Duke Normandin
2010-05-22 7:16 ` Niklas Holsti
2010-05-22 13:04 ` Duke Normandin
2010-05-22 13:47 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-05-22 14:51 ` Duke Normandin
2010-05-22 20:08 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-05-23 2:28 ` Duke Normandin
2010-05-23 2:36 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
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