From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Subject: Re: Standard missing a 'Negative' subtype?...
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 08:36:56 +0100
Date: 2013-09-15T08:36:56+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lyli2y5yef.fsf@pushface.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: l139h6$19qq$1@adenine.netfront.net
"Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org> writes:
> Natural and Positive are used in the definition of
> other things in the ARM; nothing needed Negative (or any other
> subtypes).
"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.
That said, Negative seems to come well below the bar.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-15 7:36 UTC|newest]
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 [this message]
2013-09-15 16:07 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
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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