From: "Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>
Subject: Re: number_base
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 16:15:45 +0100
Date: 2003-10-31T16:15:45+01:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: bntne8$vtf$1@news.uni-stuttgart.de
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"Peter Hermann" <ica2ph@sinus.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> a �crit dans le message de news:bntne8$vtf$1@news.uni-stuttgart.de...
> The reason: any wise programer will stick to the standard for
> portability and will roll own code in case of need.
>
And it's so easy to "roll own code" for the slight minority that needs it that it isn't worth putting into the standard.
This is typically a "nice to have" feature. We had hundreds of "nice to have" features for Ada95 that didn't make it into the
standard, simply because one-week-work * hundreds-of-features would have meant that we wouldn't have Ada95 compilers yet.
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-30 16:16 number_base amado.alves
2003-10-30 23:27 ` number_base Randy Brukardt
2003-10-31 8:29 ` number_base Marius Amado Alves
2003-10-31 13:18 ` number_base Peter Hermann
2003-10-31 15:15 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen [this message]
2003-10-31 16:28 ` number_base Peter Hermann
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2003-10-30 10:10 number_base Peter Hermann
2003-10-30 19:11 ` number_base Frank J. Lhota
2003-10-31 12:45 ` number_base Peter Hermann
2003-10-31 13:12 ` number_base Martin Dowie
2003-10-31 20:58 ` number_base Dmytry Lavrov
2003-11-03 10:32 ` number_base Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-11-03 10:33 ` number_base Lutz Donnerhacke
2003-11-03 17:11 ` number_base Frank J. Lhota
2003-11-04 3:43 ` number_base Wes Groleau
2003-11-04 10:59 ` number_base Preben Randhol
2003-11-04 13:32 ` number_base Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-11-04 14:13 ` number_base Preben Randhol
2003-11-04 14:33 ` number_base Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-10-31 18:26 ` number_base Mike Silva
2003-11-03 10:22 ` number_base Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-11-03 12:52 ` number_base Peter Hermann
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