From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Side-effect arithmetic again [was: Ada ... in embedded systems]
Date: 1996/03/23
Date: 1996-03-23T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.827599280@schonberg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4ivnr9$86o@dayuc.dayton.saic.com
John said
"Horrors! This assumes that Standard.Integer subsumes all possible ranges
of 'Pos values for all discrete types (enumeration, integer, modular).
A very dubious assumption! What about Long_Long_Integer? The long-term
reusability of this package is problematic."
Nope, not horrors at all. Increment should mean increment, not add, if
you want to add, please use the + operator which is just fine for
this purpose.
I think it actively HELPS maintainability that increment accepts only
small positive values.
I also think that the extnsion of these operators, dubious in the first
place, to weird cases like mod is a disservice. I can put up with += in
C but I find the use of things like %= and ^= to be tortured syntax,
which I prefer NOT to import in any case.
I still think the whole business is a tempest in a teapot, and do not think
that the use of any of these packages helps in reading, maintaining, or
even writing code.
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1996-02-17 0:00 ` Ada is almost useless in embedded systems Tore Joergensen
1996-02-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-02-19 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-02-19 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-02-21 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-02-21 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-02-19 0:00 ` R.A.L Williams
1996-02-21 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-02-19 0:00 ` AdaWorks
1996-02-21 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-02-23 0:00 ` AdaWorks
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1996-02-17 0:00 ` Ada is great for embedded systems (was Ada is almost useless in embedded systems) Ken & Virginia Garlington
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1996-02-19 0:00 ` Ada is almost useless in embedded systems AdaWorks
1996-02-21 0:00 ` Hugh Dunne
1996-02-21 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
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1996-02-22 0:00 ` Alan Brain
1996-02-19 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-02-26 0:00 ` R.A.L Williams
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1996-03-21 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-03-23 0:00 ` Side-effect arithmetic again [was: Ada ... in embedded systems] John G. Volan
1996-03-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1996-03-25 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-03-25 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-03-25 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-03-26 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1996-03-26 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-03-26 0:00 ` Tore Joergensen
1996-03-27 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1996-03-28 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-03-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-03-29 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-03-29 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-03-27 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1996-03-29 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-03-30 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1996-03-31 0:00 ` AdaWorks
1996-04-01 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-03-30 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1996-03-27 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1996-03-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-03-29 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
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1996-02-17 0:00 ` Ada is almost useless in embedded systems Robert Dewar
1996-02-18 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-02-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-02-19 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-02-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-02-21 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
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1996-02-17 0:00 ` Ken & Virginia Garlington
1996-02-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-02-18 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-02-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-02-19 0:00 ` John McCabe
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1996-02-26 0:00 ` Ada 83 " Alan Brain
[not found] ` <RALW.96Feb28100925@vulcan.gmrc.gecm.com>
1996-03-15 0:00 ` Ada is almost useless " Robert I. Eachus
1996-03-18 0:00 ` Alan Brain
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1996-03-18 0:00 ` Side-effect arithmetic again [was: Ada ... in embedded systems] Robert Dewar
1996-03-19 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-03-19 0:00 ` Jay Martin
1996-03-21 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
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1996-03-18 0:00 ` Ada is almost useless in embedded systems David Weller
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1996-03-15 0:00 ` Bug or Limitation? (was: Ada is almost useless in embedded systems) Robert Dewar
1996-03-16 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1996-03-20 0:00 ` Side-effect arithmetic again [was: Ada ... in embedded systems] Robert I. Eachus
1996-03-20 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-03-21 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1996-03-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-03-25 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-03-28 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1996-03-29 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1996-03-20 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1996-03-22 0:00 ` Alan Brain
1996-03-21 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1996-03-26 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1996-03-16 0:00 ` Ada is almost useless in embedded systems Kevin Dalley
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