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Subject: Re: How to make Ada popular. Get rid of ";" at end of statement.
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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 */