From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.not.jrcarter@acm.not.spam.org>
Subject: Re: Ranges and (non)static constraints
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:56:16 GMT
Date: 2006-11-16T18:56:16+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <kv27h.282093$1i1.239315@attbi_s72> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1pqs0gcno5o2t.1195tm9yap28b.dlg@40tude.net>
Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> Informally, the second is an abbreviation for:
>
> type <anonymous> is new Integer;
> subtype U is <anonymous> range 1..M;
>
> so "range" refers to a subtype. On the contrary, in the first, "range"
> refers a type. So the difference.
Actually, the 1st is an abbreviation for:
type <anonymous> is new
<hardware-specific type with sufficient range>;
subtype T is <anonymous> range 1 .. N;
It's allowing the compiler to decide which hardware-specific type to use
that results in N needing to be static.
--
Jeff Carter
"Hello! Smelly English K...niggets."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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2006-11-16 11:02 Ranges and (non)static constraints Maciej Sobczak
2006-11-16 12:23 ` Martin Krischik
2006-11-16 13:23 ` Maciej Sobczak
2006-11-16 19:01 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-11-18 0:02 ` Robert A Duff
2006-11-16 13:13 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-11-16 17:18 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2006-11-17 9:08 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-11-17 10:30 ` Stuart
2006-11-17 10:37 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2006-11-17 14:57 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-11-17 16:04 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2006-11-18 9:51 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-11-18 14:17 ` Stephen Leake
2006-11-17 20:05 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-11-17 23:58 ` Robert A Duff
2006-11-18 9:47 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-11-19 2:27 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-11-19 12:13 ` Björn Persson
2006-11-19 22:51 ` Robert A Duff
2006-11-20 3:51 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-11-21 21:02 ` Robert A Duff
2006-11-20 17:35 ` Adam Beneschan
2006-11-17 15:45 ` Maciej Sobczak
2006-11-17 16:45 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2006-11-17 10:39 ` AW: " Grein, Christoph (Fa. ESG)
2006-11-17 11:20 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-11-17 13:30 ` Stuart
2006-11-17 15:07 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-11-17 16:47 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2006-11-20 14:08 ` Stuart
2006-11-20 14:12 ` Stuart
2006-11-20 15:48 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-11-16 18:56 ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2006-11-16 20:00 ` Adam Beneschan
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