From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: GNAT messages and the not operator (pitfall alert!)
Date: 1996/10/27
Date: 1996-10-27T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.846422332@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1996Oct25.103321.1@corning.com
iMatt, I said
"> Almost anyone (the better they know Ada, the more likely they are to make
> this mistake) will strain to remember the table in the RM that talks about
> negative mods, and, if they remember it right, come up with the answer of 1."
I did not say that 1 was the right answer, in fact the whole point of the
post is that -5 mod 3 has nothing to do with the table in the RM about
negative mods, since this is a simple positive mod, so the answer from
the table is wrong!!!!!!
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1996-10-24 0:00 GNAT messages and the not operator (pitfall alert!) Robert Dewar
1996-10-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-25 0:00 ` whiting_ms@corning.com (Matt Whiting)
1996-10-26 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1996-10-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1996-10-28 0:00 ` Matthew S. Whiting
1996-10-26 0:00 ` John Herro
1996-10-26 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-10-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-29 0:00 ` John Herro
1996-10-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-30 0:00 ` Dr. Peter E. Obermayer
1996-10-30 0:00 ` John Herro
1996-10-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-01 0:00 ` User Password expiration date extractor? Stein-Aksel Basma
1996-10-29 0:00 ` GNAT messages and the not operator (pitfall alert!) Norman H. Cohen
1996-10-29 0:00 ` whiting_ms@corning.com (Matt Whiting)
1996-10-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-30 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-18 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-30 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1996-10-30 0:00 ` whiting_ms@corning.com (Matt Whiting)
1996-10-30 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-28 0:00 ` Cary Jamison
1996-10-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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