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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: border1.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsgate.cuhk.edu.hk!news.netfront.net!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Standard missing a 'Negative' subtype?... Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 09:07:24 -0700 Organization: Netfront http://www.netfront.net/ Message-ID: References: <7b66c649-3796-41ea-b734-a2b14d2dbac3@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 172.242.61.231 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: adenine.netfront.net 1379261246 76006 172.242.61.231 (15 Sep 2013 16:07:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@netfront.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 16:07:26 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 In-Reply-To: X-Original-Bytes: 1850 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:183366 Date: 2013-09-15T09:07:24-07:00 List-Id: 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 --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: news@netfront.net ---