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From: BrianG <briang000@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada.Execution_Time
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:24:17 -0500
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Simon Wright wrote:
> BrianG <briang000@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>>> Arguably, CPU_Time is misnamed, because it is *not*
>>> some sort of time type.
>> Then the package is misnamed too - How is "Execution_Time" not a time?
> 
> A 'time type'
> [http://www.adaic.com/resources/add_content/standards/05rm/html/RM-9-6.html]
> (6) can be used as the argument for a delay statement. Wouldn't make a
> lot of sense for an execution time! (well, perhaps one could think of
> some obscure use ...)
(Actually for a delay_until.)  That paragraph seems to contradict the 
previous one which says "any nonlimited type".  Shouldn't (6) define 
Real_Time.Time since it's not Calendar.Time and isn't 
implementation-defined?  At least now Randy's comments make sense - I 
hadn't realized there was a language-defined concept of special 
"time-types" that had special uses (I hadn't realized the standard 
defines a use for certain private types that is not explicitly evident 
in the code - any other "magic" uses like this?)

> 
> I see the standards have moved, time to update my bookmarks!