From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Subject: Re: using `use' : what is the best practice ?
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 11:43:57 -0700
Date: 2011-06-08T11:43:57-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <isoijl$5g4$1@tornado.tornevall.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6355779b-dab3-4f78-a6f7-78f395426332@v8g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>
On 06/08/2011 02:31 AM, milouz wrote:
>
> Yes, as I'm new to Ada, I still have a lot of things to learn /
> understand. I'm a kernel developer, and my way to learn Ada is to
> write some drivers and very low-level stuffs. That's why I need to
> play with address arithmetic.
More correctly, you *think* you need to play with address arithmetic. You may be
right, but address arithmetic is needed extremely rarely in Ada. Ada has
alternatives to most address arithmetic in C.
However, this has nothing to do with use clauses.
--
Jeff Carter
"Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine,
public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system,
and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"
Monty Python's Life of Brian
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2011-06-07 15:32 using `use' : what is the best practice ? milouz
2011-06-07 15:59 ` Simon Wright
2011-06-07 16:22 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-06-07 16:59 ` Simon Wright
2011-06-07 17:25 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-06-07 17:29 ` Simon Wright
2011-06-07 19:38 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-06-11 14:11 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-06-08 9:07 ` Paul Colin Gloster
2011-06-08 11:20 ` stefan-lucks
2011-06-08 16:45 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-06-11 14:05 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-06-07 17:33 ` Pascal Obry
2011-06-08 2:42 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-06-12 5:09 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-06-07 18:51 ` Jeffrey Carter
2011-06-08 0:04 ` Peter C. Chapin
2011-06-07 19:32 ` Anders Wirzenius
2011-06-07 23:38 ` Shark8
2011-06-12 5:19 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-06-12 7:55 ` Stephen Leake
2011-06-08 4:25 ` Jerry
2011-06-08 9:31 ` milouz
2011-06-08 17:17 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-06-08 18:43 ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
2011-06-09 10:40 ` Address arithmetic alternatives milouz
2011-06-09 11:25 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-06-09 18:53 ` Jeffrey Carter
2011-06-08 19:22 ` using `use' : what is the best practice ? Pascal Obry
2011-06-09 1:17 ` Shark8
2011-06-09 10:44 ` milouz
2011-06-08 6:06 ` stefan-lucks
2011-06-15 2:25 ` Adrian Hoe
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