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-Thread: 103376,be5ce9f41ac56f51 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Received: by 10.204.157.134 with SMTP id b6mr23178bkx.5.1339027695182; Wed, 06 Jun 2012 17:08:15 -0700 (PDT) Path: e27ni21762bkw.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Adam Beneschan Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Low_Level_IO, what is it? Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 17:08:14 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.126.103.122 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1339027694 26830 127.0.0.1 (7 Jun 2012 00:08:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 00:08:14 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=66.126.103.122; posting-account=duW0ogkAAABjRdnxgLGXDfna0Gc6XqmQ User-Agent: G2/1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: 2012-06-06T17:08:14-07:00 List-Id: On Sunday, June 3, 2012 10:29:29 PM UTC-7, Hibou57 (Yannick Duch=EAne) wrot= e: > A further link gives its incomplete definition: >=20 > package LOW_LEVEL_IO is > -- declarations of the possible types for DEVICE and DATA; > -- declarations of overloaded procedures for these types: > procedure SEND_CONTROL (DEVICE : device_type; DATA : in out =20 > data_type); > procedure RECEIVE_CONTROL (DEVICE : device_type; DATA : in out =20 > data_type); > end; >=20 > Also, the casing is funny. As Randy explained, using upper-case letters for identifiers and lower-case= for keywords was standard back in Ada 83. A further point: The names "dev= ice_type" and "data_type" are supposed to be in italics. The linked that y= ou followed didn't show them that way, but they're italicized in the printe= d Ada 83 standard. These are not the exact names that are supposed to be u= sed---the implementor is supposed to provide their own names for these type= s. Maybe that's another reason why you thought the casing was funny. -- Adam