From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Subject: Re: Dynamic type system for Ada
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 19:07:41 +0100
Date: 2017-01-24T19:07:41+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <o68529$311$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <o67mi7$v0f$1@gioia.aioe.org>
On 01/24/2017 02:58 PM, Victor Porton wrote:
>
> All I ask is just an Ada type which would be so flexible that could store
> any kind of a value (just like as a variable in a dynamic language).
You might want to look at type System.Storage_Elements.Storage_Array (ARM
13.7.1). You can (unchecked) convert most values to and from a Storage_Array of
the correct size. Package Ada.Storage_IO (ARM A.9) makes it easy to do so for
definite, unlimited types.
--
Jeff Carter
"It is the German who is so uncourteous to his verbs."
A Scandal in Bohemia
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-24 13:12 Dynamic type system for Ada Victor Porton
2017-01-24 13:44 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-01-24 13:58 ` Victor Porton
2017-01-24 14:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-01-24 18:07 ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2017-01-24 21:21 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-01-24 22:01 ` J-P. Rosen
2017-01-25 8:23 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-01-25 21:55 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-01-25 8:38 ` Georg Bauhaus
2017-01-25 5:41 ` Paul Rubin
2017-01-27 19:20 ` Victor Porton
2017-01-28 1:16 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2017-01-28 9:37 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2017-01-26 17:53 ` Vincent
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