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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Ada is almost useless in embedded systems
Date: 1996/03/15
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Date: 1996-03-15T00:00:00+00:00
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Norm Cohen asks

"Let's face it, based literals were placed in Ada to provide a clear
correspondence with bit patterns and with specifications expressed in
binary, octal, or hex.  Has anybody out there ever found a genuine
application for literals in any of the bases 3 .. 7 | 9 | 11 .. 15?"

In Ada 83, 3#0.1# is a nice way to write a literal value that is
exactly 1.3.

In Ada95, with its new rules on static expressions, it works equally
well to write 1.0/3.0, so this is not so important