From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1901f265c928a511 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!wn13feed!worldnet.att.net!bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Dave Thompson Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Typing in Ada Message-ID: References: <40BDBBFA.2020203@noplace.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 02:50:34 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.75.178.33 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1087440634 12.75.178.33 (Thu, 17 Jun 2004 02:50:34 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 02:50:34 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1597 Date: 2004-06-17T02:50:34+00:00 List-Id: On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 11:38:04 GMT, Marin David Condic wrote: > I'd also observe that just because there is a secret handshake that will > get C to complain about type compatibility doesn't mean much. Following > that logic, an assembler program can be made to complain about type > compatibility (at least at runtime) if you want to do enough work. The > problem is that typedef doesn't do what one who is acustomed to Ada > would think it should: "type" - "def" - Define a type. > One of the regulars on comp.lang.c, Chris Torek, likes to suggest that the 'struct' keyword -- which unlike 'typedef' does create a distinct type as far as the C compiler is concerned -- should be read as an acronym "STRange spelling for User Constructed Type". :-) - David.Thompson1 at worldnet.att.net