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From: Simon Wright <simon.j.wright@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: Are there noticable differences in Ada acceptance by country?
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 07:02:38 +0000
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Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com> writes:

> On Mar 21, 12:21 pm, gp...@axonx.com wrote:
>> On Mar 21, 12:39 pm, Simon Wright <simon.j.wri...@mac.com> wrote:
>>
>> > gp...@axonx.com writes:
>> > > From my own C experience: using code from different sources X and Y
>> > > coordinates in function calls were in different order: foo(x,y);
>> > > boo(height, width), etc. Easy to overlook.
>>
>> > That was my point (I expect I failed to make it properly): if you use
>> > a record for Coordinate, your chance of getting the components the
>> > wrong way round is hugely reduced, and I don't think the added value
>> > of making the H & V components different _types_ is worth the added
>> > cost.
>>
>> Is there any runtime cost of using new type if no range is defined?
>
> Very unlikely, I think.  I think the type of "cost" Simon was talking
> about was the added burden (on both writer and reader) of additional
> type conversions cluttering up the code, when (in this case) they
> probably accomplish very little in the way of preventing programmer
> errors.

That was it, precisely: thanks, Adam!