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=0.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,81bb2ce65a3240c3 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Received: by 10.68.230.98 with SMTP id sx2mr8997300pbc.1.1335686244799; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:57:24 -0700 (PDT) Path: r9ni111260pbh.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J-P. Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: What would you like in Ada202X? Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 09:57:12 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <3637793.35.1335340026327.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@ynfi5> <4f97bf40$0$6559$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> <8762clbozl.fsf@adaheads.sparre-andersen.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Injection-Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 07:57:19 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="WkyIWRGAu6mGqaMUWedxqw"; logging-data="25551"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+Vf2lZqLxNDSLqfrQBthND" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120327 Thunderbird/11.0.1 In-Reply-To: <8762clbozl.fsf@adaheads.sparre-andersen.dk> Cancel-Lock: sha1:bckZoJ6/2G219XImgfmnRMOt6aU= X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: 2012-04-29T09:57:12+02:00 List-Id: Le 27/04/2012 09:41, Jacob Sparre Andersen a �crit : > And the rationale: I believe that avoiding predefined types will limit > the temptation to use the same type (or two types) for all numerical > objects. Unfortunately, I have seen too many industrial projects that forbid the use of predefined type, but where people define: type Byte is range 0..255; and then use only this all over the place... No language rule can compensate for insufficient training! -- J-P. Rosen Adalog 2 rue du Docteur Lombard, 92441 Issy-les-Moulineaux CEDEX Tel: +33 1 45 29 21 52, Fax: +33 1 45 29 25 00 http://www.adalog.fr