From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org>
To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org
Subject: Re: Enumeration representation
Date: 01 Jan 2004 20:29:44 -0500
Date: 2004-01-01T20:29:44-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.198.1073006998.31149.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan.2004.01.01.22.01.19.175995@n_o_p_o_r_k_a_n_d_h_a_m.abyss2.demon.co.uk>
"Luke A. Guest" <laguest@n_o_p_o_r_k_a_n_d_h_a_m.abyss2.demon.co.uk> writes:
> On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 16:45:28 -0500, Stephen Leake wrote:
>
> >> Is this implementation dependent?
> >
> > In the absence of a representation clause, the representation in RAM
> > is technically implementation dependent, but it's extremely
> > likely to be the same as the position number.
>
> Hmm, ok. Is there a representation clause that tells the compiler to start
> at a particular value?
No.
> I looked, but couldn't see it. Having to define every enumeration
> twice could be a pain.
You aren't "defining" them twice. You are defining them once, and
specifying the representation once.
Ada is verbose, in order to be very clear. Get used to it :).
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-- Stephe
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2004-01-01 20:44 Enumeration representation Luke A. Guest
2004-01-01 21:45 ` Stephen Leake
2004-01-01 22:01 ` Luke A. Guest
2004-01-02 1:17 ` tmoran
2004-01-02 1:29 ` Stephen Leake [this message]
2004-01-02 3:10 ` Luke A. Guest
2004-01-02 2:46 ` Robert A Duff
2004-01-02 3:12 ` Luke A. Guest
2004-01-02 13:58 ` Marin David Condic
2004-01-02 21:39 ` Pat Rogers
2004-01-03 13:42 ` Marin David Condic
2004-01-03 1:53 ` Robert A Duff
2004-01-02 20:52 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-01-02 21:05 ` Luke A. Guest
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