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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,5b7ee26df9f9c357 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!y11g2000yqm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Gautier write-only Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: OpenGL in Ada Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 21:10:59 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <68dd0333-f502-4351-9e50-4ec83bddc44e@k39g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.1.150.247 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1278821459 31039 127.0.0.1 (11 Jul 2010 04:10:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 04:10:59 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: y11g2000yqm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=85.1.150.247; posting-account=gRqrnQkAAAAC_02ynnhqGk1VRQlve6ZG User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100504 SeaMonkey/2.0.5,gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12320 Date: 2010-07-10T21:10:59-07:00 List-Id: On Jul 11, 4:45=A0am, BrianG wrote: > I don't understand your "rather"; that's exactly my point. =A0See the > start of my post. Sorry, I misunderstood you. ... >=A0My problem is I can't come up with an obvious > second name. =A0Color_F and Color_I (etc) are obvious and simple, so > maybe that's the best option. In my opinion it is. It is the closest to the full overloading to "Color", but avoiding the problem with litterals. Then you can have also have also "Color" for one of the fp types, same for one of the integer types. G.