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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,ee1a8b8db84c88f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!proxad.net!62.253.162.218.MISMATCH!news-in.ntli.net!newsrout1-win.ntli.net!ntli.net!newspeer1-win.ntli.net!newsfe6-win.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Dr. Adrian Wrigley" Subject: Re: Ada exception block does NOT work? User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity.) Message-Id: Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <4301ab29$0$6989$9b4e6d93@newsread2.arcor-online.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 12:34:06 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.4.127.115 X-Complaints-To: http://www.ntlworld.com/netreport X-Trace: newsfe6-win.ntli.net 1124454846 80.4.127.115 (Fri, 19 Aug 2005 13:34:06 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 13:34:06 BST Organization: ntl Cablemodem News Service Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4186 Date: 2005-08-19T12:34:06+00:00 List-Id: On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 16:56:35 -0400, Robert A Duff wrote: > On the third hand, *unsigned* integer arithmetic is wrap-around in C, > C++, Java, *and* Ada. err... doesn't Ada raise exceptions on overflow for unsigned types? presumably you are talking of Ada's modular types(?) which are (obviously) wrap-around, exactly as users want from such a type(!) -- Adrian