From: Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>
Subject: Re: Naturals and discrete types
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 18:19:04 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2001-11-02T18:19:04+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrn9u5sp5.v0j.randhol+abuse@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: sFAE7.10257$xS6.14219@www.newsranger.com
On Fri, 02 Nov 2001 17:24:40 GMT, Ted Dennison wrote:
> In article <oGjE7.221593$K6.106487221@news2>, Clueless says...
>>Also, I've been checking my Ada docs to find out if the Natural type is
>>considered to be a Discrete or Real type by the GNAT compiler, but I
>>havent found any specific info yet. Although the compiler messages
>>certainly seem to indicate that Natural is a subtype of Real.
>
> Boy are you confused!
>
> Natural is a subtype of Integer with a range of 0 to Integer'last.
Which again comes from basic mathematics. :-)
Preben Randhol
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-01 22:05 Naturals and discrete types Clueless
2001-11-01 22:35 ` Matthew Heaney
2001-11-01 22:59 ` Clueless
2001-11-02 15:05 ` Marin David Condic
2001-11-02 17:24 ` Ted Dennison
2001-11-02 18:19 ` Preben Randhol [this message]
2001-11-02 18:51 ` Marin David Condic
2001-11-03 18:01 ` Nick Roberts
2001-11-04 4:18 ` tmoran
2001-11-05 15:29 ` Marin David Condic
2001-11-04 11:39 ` Preben Randhol
2001-11-05 2:01 ` Clueless
2001-11-05 2:37 ` Larry Kilgallen
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2001-11-01 23:06 Beard, Frank
2001-11-01 23:20 ` Clueless
2001-11-02 3:05 ` DuckE
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