From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
Subject: Re: How to make Ada popular. Get rid of ";" at end of statement.
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 18:34:41 -0700
Date: 2019-07-26T18:34:41-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lnh8785kge.fsf@kst-u.example.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: cd5cf8f4-2c6a-4fd2-a696-9f2a07287b36@googlegroups.com
Lucretia <laguest9000@googlemail.com> writes:
> On Thursday, 25 July 2019 08:26:29 UTC+1, Maciej Sobczak wrote:
>> > The one concrete reason I've ever heard for using C or C++ instead
>> > of Modula-2 or Ada is that C/C++ allow you to perform pointer
>> > arithmetic
>>
>> Really? I would never consider that reason myself.
>
> Me neither, but then you can do pointer arithmetic in Ada, you just
> use normal numbers and convert to an address.
I'm fairly sure there's no guarantee that the result of any such
conversion (which would have to use Unchecked_Conversion or something
equivalent, unless I've missed something) would be meaningful.
--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Will write code for food.
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */
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2019-07-19 21:41 How to make Ada popular. Get rid of ";" at end of statement Nasser M. Abbasi
2019-07-19 22:09 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-07-20 6:47 ` J-P. Rosen
2019-07-20 8:42 ` Paul Rubin
2019-07-21 5:11 ` J-P. Rosen
2019-07-23 9:24 ` darek
2019-07-20 17:08 ` Stéphane Rivière
2019-07-20 13:46 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2019-07-20 0:47 ` Matt Borchers
2019-07-20 13:54 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2019-07-20 14:40 ` Stephen Davies
2019-07-20 15:45 ` Optikos
2019-07-20 17:24 ` joviangm
2019-07-20 19:10 ` Optikos
2019-07-20 19:17 ` AdaMagica
2019-07-20 22:25 ` Paul Rubin
2019-07-20 23:08 ` Optikos
2019-07-20 22:24 ` Paul Rubin
2019-07-20 21:14 ` Keith Thompson
2019-07-23 21:58 ` Ingo M.
2019-07-23 23:56 ` Paul Rubin
2019-07-24 14:06 ` John Perry
2019-07-24 14:51 ` Ingo M.
2019-07-24 15:29 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-07-25 10:58 ` Ingo M.
2019-07-25 12:16 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-07-26 10:54 ` antispam
2019-07-26 11:35 ` Niklas Holsti
2019-07-26 16:07 ` Simon Wright
2019-07-24 19:52 ` Ingo M.
2019-07-24 20:31 ` J-P. Rosen
2019-07-25 13:34 ` gautier_niouzes
2019-07-25 7:26 ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-07-25 10:47 ` Ingo M.
2019-07-25 16:18 ` John Perry
2019-07-25 18:31 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2019-07-26 18:04 ` Shark8
2019-07-26 18:53 ` Niklas Holsti
2019-07-26 19:16 ` Niklas Holsti
2019-07-27 1:27 ` Lucretia
2019-07-27 1:34 ` Keith Thompson [this message]
2019-07-27 3:11 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-07-27 4:06 ` Keith Thompson
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