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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bd3300f3a56e7f45 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-03-18 09:24:54 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed.stueberl.de!proxad.net!freenix!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: Marius Amado Alves Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: different compilers: different standard types????? Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 17:33:20 +0000 Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: Reply-To: amado.alves@netcabo.pt NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1079630500 63890 212.85.156.195 (18 Mar 2004 17:21:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 17:21:40 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 In-Reply-To: X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p7 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6413 Date: 2004-03-18T17:33:20+00:00 > type LI is range 0 .. 2**40 - 1; I was temporarilly insane. Thanks for the slap on the face. Of course thi= s is=20 the right way to define 'long' integer types. I was fixated on forms with= a=20 base/parent type: subtype ST is Long_Integer range ... type T is new Long_Integer range ... /* My only excuse is that my brain is not naturally equiped to intuitivel= y=20 grasp and store these differences. Were there many more like me and this=20 could be a message to language designers. But I'm probably the odd one. S= o=20 it's a message to me: start looking for a smaller language, as definitely= the=20 ARM does not fit in your (my) head entirely. */