From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Negative float problem
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 12:07:20 +0100
Date: 2005-11-20T12:07:18+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pvbr1qaqhvrl.1ufeui1kv5qrs$.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wcc3blsf9wr.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com
On 19 Nov 2005 19:19:32 -0500, Robert A Duff wrote:
> No, C++ and Ada are completely different in this regard: In C++, the
> literal itself determines its type (the value, plus the presence of
> "L"), as you explained above. In Ada, the _context_ determines the type
> of the literal.
Right. There could be two different ways to describe what's going on. One
is to say that all literals overload each other (as if they were
functions.) Another is to create a common ancestor type for homographs and
overload conversions from them (Universal_Integer, is an example.) Ada uses
both and both require the context.
--
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-26 18:32 Negative float problem Luke
2005-10-26 19:05 ` Samuel Tardieu
2005-10-26 20:42 ` Robert A Duff
2005-10-27 8:05 ` Robert I. Eachus
2005-10-27 14:48 ` Robert A Duff
2005-10-27 15:07 ` Maciej Sobczak
2005-10-27 15:47 ` Robert A Duff
2005-10-28 8:34 ` Maciej Sobczak
2005-10-29 23:39 ` Brian May
2005-10-30 9:11 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-10-31 9:46 ` Maciej Sobczak
2005-10-31 14:20 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-11-01 11:06 ` Maciej Sobczak
2005-11-01 14:06 ` Robert A Duff
2005-11-01 14:46 ` Martin Dowie
2005-11-01 16:04 ` Hyman Rosen
2005-11-01 17:19 ` Martin Dowie
2005-11-02 0:13 ` Robert A Duff
2005-11-02 6:59 ` Martin Dowie
2005-11-02 13:24 ` Robert A Duff
2005-11-02 15:22 ` Martin Dowie
2005-11-01 15:12 ` Maciej Sobczak
2005-11-02 0:28 ` Robert A Duff
2005-11-02 4:16 ` Steve Whalen
2005-11-14 7:26 ` Dave Thompson
2005-11-20 0:19 ` Robert A Duff
2005-11-20 11:07 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2005-11-01 14:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-11-01 15:19 ` Maciej Sobczak
2005-11-01 19:44 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-11-02 9:04 ` Maciej Sobczak
2005-11-02 11:17 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-11-02 13:03 ` Maciej Sobczak
2005-11-02 14:20 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2005-11-02 20:15 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-11-03 13:06 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2005-11-03 18:32 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-11-03 9:51 ` Maciej Sobczak
2005-11-03 13:20 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2005-11-03 15:02 ` Maciej Sobczak
2005-11-03 18:55 ` Frank J. Lhota
2005-11-04 9:32 ` Maciej Sobczak
2005-11-03 20:59 ` Simon Wright
2005-11-02 13:32 ` Robert A Duff
2005-11-02 14:44 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-11-02 13:47 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-10-27 18:33 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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