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=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,3132fa2f1b036425 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-31 08:05:19 PST From: "Jean-Pierre Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: number_base Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 16:15:45 +0100 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhost.axlog.fr X-Trace: s1.read.news.oleane.net 1067616070 5535 195.25.228.57 (31 Oct 2003 16:01:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@oleane.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 16:01:10 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!feed.ac-versailles.fr!freenix!oleane.net!oleane!nnrp.oleane.net!skymaster!nobody Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1872 Date: 2003-10-31T16:15:45+01:00 List-Id: "Peter Hermann" 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. -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr