From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Ada Enumerations
Date: 1997/12/04
Date: 1997-12-04T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.881289148@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mheaney-ya023680000412970941410001@news.ni.net
Matthew says
<<Good advice. For low-level I/O, an enumeration type is often not what you
want anyway. What's wrong with a good old fashioned integer type?
>>
For one thing, it provides operations like addition, which are probably
meaningless nonsense.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-12-04 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-12-03 0:00 Ada Enumerations Jeffrey Harris
1997-12-03 0:00 ` James S. Rogers
1997-12-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-03 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1997-12-04 0:00 ` GNAT'Object_Size Mats Weber
1997-12-05 0:00 ` GNAT'Object_Size Mats Weber
1997-12-04 0:00 ` GNAT'Object_Size Mats Weber
1997-12-08 0:00 ` GNAT'Object_Size Mats Weber
1997-12-10 0:00 ` GNAT'Object_Size Robert Dewar
1997-12-04 0:00 ` GNAT'Object_Size Mats Weber
1997-12-04 0:00 ` Ada Enumerations Matthew Heaney
1997-12-04 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1997-12-07 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1997-12-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-08 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1997-12-07 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-12-11 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-12-07 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-12-04 0:00 ` GNAT'Object_Size Mats Weber
1997-12-04 0:00 ` Ada Enumerations Robert Dewar
1997-12-04 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1997-12-18 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
1997-12-04 0:00 ` GNAT'Object_Size Mats Weber
1997-12-04 0:00 ` Ada Enumerations Stephen Leake
1997-12-04 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-12-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1997-12-06 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1997-12-06 0:00 ` Making Predefined Operators Abstract Matthew Heaney
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1997-12-10 0:00 Ada enumerations Stanley R. Allen
1997-12-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-11 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1997-12-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-12 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1997-12-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-12 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1997-12-11 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1997-12-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-10 0:00 ` John M. Mills
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