From: "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Subject: Re: Interfacing Ada with C
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 20:46:37 -0400
Date: 2010-08-06T20:46:37-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nospam-C857A5.20463706082010@news.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2pqxvbi8l.fsf@pushface.org
In article <m2pqxvbi8l.fsf@pushface.org>,
Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> wrote:
[...]
> >> The thought process was, "I'm going to be writing a set of demo
> >> cases which should work for arbitrary floating-point types, I'll
> >> call the type My_Float. Shall I use type My_Float is new ... or
> >> subtype My_Float is ...? Doesn't really matter, go for subtype."
> >
> > I am not sure what do you mean. If the code meant to be used with
> > any type, then it should be generic (My_Float is digits <>). If the
> > code is to work with some yet unknown type (to be determined later)
> > then it should be My_Float is new Long_Float. That would protect me
> > from mixing Long_Float and My_Float.
>
> You're clearly right for serious code (in this case, for serious unit
> tests which I may well make generic). But this wasn't a serious test,
> it was an exploratory hack. Perhaps I shouldn't have let it out into
> the wild without a bit more polishing.
No! Release Early, Release Often:
<http://catb.org/esr/writings/homesteading/cathedral-bazaar/ar01s04.html>
> I do feel that writing a demo like this one as a set of generics
> instantiated for various floating types would probably have obscured
> the point.
--
John B. Matthews
trashgod at gmail dot com
<http://sites.google.com/site/drjohnbmatthews>
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2010-07-24 11:57 Interfacing Ada with C Ada novice
2010-07-24 12:08 ` Robert A Duff
2010-07-24 12:32 ` Ada novice
2010-07-24 14:52 ` Marco
2010-07-24 16:38 ` Simon Wright
2010-07-24 17:58 ` Ada novice
2010-07-25 8:29 ` Simon Wright
2010-07-25 12:21 ` Ada novice
2010-07-25 13:50 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-07-25 14:12 ` Ada novice
2010-07-25 14:17 ` Ada novice
2010-07-25 14:26 ` Simon Wright
2010-07-25 16:18 ` Ada novice
2010-07-25 17:06 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-07-25 17:42 ` Ada novice
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2010-07-25 18:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-07-25 18:52 ` Ada novice
2010-07-25 18:58 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-07-25 19:13 ` Ada novice
2010-07-25 19:19 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-07-25 19:28 ` Ada novice
2010-07-25 20:04 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-07-26 13:40 ` Ada novice
2010-07-26 14:52 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-07-26 17:14 ` Ada novice
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2010-07-26 17:32 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-07-26 17:50 ` Ada novice
2010-07-27 12:24 ` Peter Hermann
2010-07-27 19:01 ` Ada novice
2010-07-28 9:56 ` team-ada (was e: " Peter Hermann
2010-07-27 5:50 ` Ada novice
2010-07-27 7:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-07-27 7:43 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-07-27 18:37 ` Ada novice
2010-07-27 18:40 ` Ada novice
2010-07-25 17:24 ` Simon Wright
2010-07-25 17:47 ` Simon Wright
2010-07-25 17:58 ` Ada novice
2010-07-25 23:21 ` Simon Wright
2010-07-26 1:24 ` John B. Matthews
2010-07-26 14:01 ` Ada novice
2010-07-26 15:46 ` sjw
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2010-07-26 19:46 ` Simon Wright
2010-07-26 20:39 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-07-27 5:46 ` Ada novice
2010-07-27 5:43 ` Ada novice
2010-07-27 17:33 ` Simon Wright
2010-07-27 18:34 ` Ada novice
2010-07-28 22:26 ` Simon Wright
2010-07-29 9:19 ` Ada novice
2010-07-29 19:14 ` Simon Wright
2010-07-29 20:25 ` Ada novice
2010-07-30 1:46 ` John B. Matthews
2010-07-30 9:09 ` sjw
2010-07-30 12:41 ` Ada novice
2010-07-30 15:13 ` John B. Matthews
2010-07-30 17:25 ` Ada novice
2010-07-30 19:41 ` John B. Matthews
2010-07-30 21:08 ` Ada novice
2010-07-30 22:19 ` Simon Wright
2010-07-31 12:19 ` Ada novice
2010-07-31 13:25 ` Simon Wright
2010-07-31 19:39 ` Ada novice
2010-07-31 21:02 ` Simon Wright
2010-08-01 9:36 ` Ada novice
2010-08-01 16:14 ` Simon Wright
2010-08-01 16:27 ` Ada novice
2010-08-01 17:33 ` Simon Wright
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2010-07-31 13:08 ` Simon Wright
2010-07-31 13:17 ` Simon Wright
2010-07-30 15:10 ` John B. Matthews
2010-08-01 10:47 ` John B. Matthews
2010-08-01 17:08 ` Simon Wright
2010-08-02 1:08 ` John B. Matthews
2010-08-02 16:36 ` Simon Wright
2010-08-02 16:55 ` Ada novice
2010-08-05 9:14 ` Ada novice
2010-08-05 13:23 ` John B. Matthews
2010-08-05 13:57 ` sjw
2010-08-05 17:24 ` Ada novice
2010-08-05 17:59 ` Jeffrey Carter
2010-08-05 20:25 ` Simon Wright
2010-08-06 1:15 ` John B. Matthews
2010-08-06 9:11 ` Ada novice
2010-08-06 9:17 ` Ada novice
2010-08-06 8:04 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2010-08-06 8:42 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-06 9:26 ` Ada novice
2010-08-06 9:51 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-06 12:04 ` Ada novice
2010-08-06 16:49 ` Simon Wright
2010-08-06 17:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-06 18:15 ` Ada novice
2010-08-06 20:26 ` Simon Wright
2010-08-07 0:46 ` John B. Matthews [this message]
2010-08-07 7:59 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-07 9:09 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-08-07 12:33 ` John B. Matthews
2010-08-06 9:49 ` Peter Hermann
2010-08-06 12:03 ` Ada novice
2010-08-07 4:07 ` Randy Brukardt
2010-08-07 8:10 ` Ada novice
2010-08-06 16:41 ` Simon Wright
2010-08-06 8:39 ` sjw
2010-07-24 16:44 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-07-24 18:04 ` Ada novice
2010-07-24 19:16 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-07-25 0:22 ` tmoran
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