From: Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
Subject: Re: String to Integer conversion?
Date: 1998/08/01
Date: 1998-08-01T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ogu5ve9m.fsf@mheaney.ni.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.901945924@merv
dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
> <<Q for language lawyers: why no predefined instantiation of Fixed_IO for
> type Duration?
> >>
>
> Because these predefined instantiations are intended for simple student
> use, and one assumes that it is unlikely that students will be mucking
> with duration values!
Fair enough, but it would have been helpful to have a predefined
instantiation, so that everyone (ie working programmers like me) can
share the same one.
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1998-07-31 0:00 ` String to Integer conversion? Matthew Heaney
1998-07-30 0:00 ` nabbasi
1998-08-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-08-01 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney [this message]
1998-08-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-08-02 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-08-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-08-04 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-08-04 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1998-07-31 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-07-31 0:00 ` daniel gaudry
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