From: "Grein, Christoph" <christoph.grein@eurocopter.com>
Subject: Re: Signed integer to modular type conversion
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 06:39:42 +0200 (MET DST)
Date: 2002-05-16T06:39:42+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.1021524187.24517.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org> (raw)
From: Mark Johnson <mark_h_johnson@raytheon.com>
> PS: I don't generally recommend this solution because many use it to
> excess. Try...
> with Unchecked_Conversion;
> function "+" is new Unchecked_Conversion(Integer, Mod_Type);
> Then your example assignment will be...
> Y := +X;
> The abuse comes from using this method for all sorts of type
> conversions, avoiding type safety, etc.
Did you really observe much abuse? This affords so much more wording than a
simple type conversion, so why should someone abuse it?
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2002-05-16 4:39 Grein, Christoph [this message]
2002-05-16 14:13 ` Signed integer to modular type conversion Mark Johnson
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2002-05-15 5:43 Grein, Christoph
2002-05-15 2:53 Adam Beneschan
2002-05-15 3:34 ` Jim Rogers
2002-05-15 14:01 ` Mark Johnson
2002-05-16 0:02 ` Adam Beneschan
2002-05-16 2:26 ` Steven Deller
2002-05-16 9:53 ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-16 13:46 ` Steve Doiel
2002-05-16 14:00 ` Mark Johnson
2002-05-16 15:52 ` Adam Beneschan
2002-05-17 2:26 ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-17 16:44 ` Frank J. Lhota
2002-05-16 13:55 ` Mark Johnson
2002-05-15 19:12 ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-15 20:28 ` Adam Beneschan
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