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-Thread: 103376,db88d0444fafe8eb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!oleane.net!oleane!hunter.axlog.fr!nobody From: Jean-Pierre Rosen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Surprise in array concatenation Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 10:34:01 +0200 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: <1125544603.561847.32140@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1125610942.747981.280770@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhost.axlog.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: s1.news.oleane.net 1125910875 6988 195.25.228.57 (5 Sep 2005 09:01:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@oleane.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 09:01:15 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: fr, en In-Reply-To: Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4432 Date: 2005-09-05T10:34:01+02:00 List-Id: Jacob Sparre Andersen a �crit : >>The values are integral multiples of small, which can be supplied by >>the user. So I'd expect to be able to use fixed point types as >>array indices etc. You cant :( Wouldn't fixed point be *much* more >>useful if it was discrete? > That's the view of the solution space. The view of the problem space is that they are a different approximation of real numbers (floating point values being the other one). And you can't index an array with real values, whether float or fixed. -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr