From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b0d68c502c0ae6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Florian Weimer Subject: Re: Printing Enum Variable Re: Linux World Date: 1999/03/08 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 452496746 References: <7bfc2n$jl9@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> <7bhh26$r7c$1@remarQ.com> <36DCAC1F.430E2C5E@aasaa.ofe.org> <7bk4v8$kl8$1@remarQ.com> <36DDA761.7B4E8099@aasaa.ofe.org> <7bkrmm$ao1$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36DE0007.5236CEA2@aasaa.ofe.org> <7bmmu2$n0h@news1.newsguy.com> <7btj81$j0d$1@remarQ.com> <1999Mar7.074102.1@eisner> <7bva62$kgm$1@remarQ.com> Mail-Copies-To: never Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@cygnus.stuttgart.netsurf.de X-Trace: deneb.cygnus.stuttgart.netsurf.de 920879787 1899 192.168.0.1 (8 Mar 1999 07:56:27 GMT) Organization: Penguin on board User-Agent: Gnus/5.070079 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.79) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 Mar 1999 07:56:27 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-03-08T07:56:27+00:00 List-Id: "Michael Young" writes: > In very large systems, interface stability is a primary requirement, not > merely an inconvenient liability. Many here are quick to point out that > "large systems" are the rightful domain of Ada. I therefore expected to > find in this crowd some understanding of the legacy issues involved. As > before with the SDK "object" syntax, I found the bashing unwarranted and > misguided. Sorry, I didn't intend to bash anything. I only wanted to show that C lacks distinct types for integers (with no default conversion among them) and that ugly (but practical) hacks are used to imitate them. The Windows SDK was just an example. (If I wanted to bash it, I'd write about things like CreateProcess(), which should be more convincing. )