Re: type declaration and storage requirements

[Dale Stanbrough <dstanbro@bigpond.net.au>]

martin.m.dowie wrote:

> But for types that are solely for use to the internals of my program 99
> times
> out of a 100 I don't care, provided that I've defined my 'digits' or 'delta'
> or
> 'ranges' correctly.
> 
> I will admit that I use record representations less and less as the years go
> by
> and just do explicit byte array => internal representations by hand (with
> the
> help of a few generics). I've always found this area to be one of the most
> troublesome as far as portability goes...

:-)

i've always wondered (based on the problems that many of the language
designers have had formally explaining chapter 13 features) just whether
Ada currently sits on the right side of the cost/benefit relationship.


Dale