From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org>
Subject: Re: Standard missing a 'Negative' subtype?...
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 09:07:24 -0700
Date: 2013-09-15T09:07:24-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <l14lvt$2a76$1@adenine.netfront.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lyli2y5yef.fsf@pushface.org>
On 09/15/2013 12:36 AM, Simon Wright wrote:
>
> "because they are needed in other parts of the ARM" shouldn't be the
> only criterion! "what users [i.e., we developers] would find useful"
> should be considered too - otherwise we wouldn't have Ada.Containers,
> for example.
True. However, these things have been around since the beginning. I don't have access to ARM-80, but even ARM-83 doesn't
have a lot of things that would be useful, such as a math library.
> That said, Negative seems to come well below the bar.
Apparently the bar was a lot higher when the predefined subtypes of Integer were created.
--
Jeff Carter
"Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time."
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-14 8:49 Standard missing a 'Negative' subtype? Martin
2013-09-14 9:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-09-14 19:13 ` mockturtle
2013-10-01 2:45 ` J Kimball
2013-09-14 19:57 ` Shark8
2013-09-15 3:28 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2013-09-15 7:36 ` Simon Wright
2013-09-15 16:07 ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2013-09-15 16:49 ` Martin
2013-09-15 17:51 ` J-P. Rosen
2013-09-16 17:44 ` Adam Beneschan
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