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From: Stephen Leake <Stephen.A.Leake@nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: Dimension checking was RE: Why is Ada NOT a good choice for a beginner to programming?
Date: 13 Jan 2003 12:34:59 -0500
Date: 2003-01-13T17:47:29+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uk7h9nebg.fsf@nasa.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1042310041.30777.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org

"Robert C. Leif" <rleif@rleif.com> writes:

> An obvious fix, which was discussed at SIGAda 2002, is to develop a means
> (Pragma?) to tell the compiler to only check the dimensionality at compile
> time. This could be in the form of a compile time assertion.

Or an ASIS tool that reads structured comments to get the units.

-- 
-- Stephe



  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-13 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-10  6:38 Why is Ada NOT a good choice for a beginner to programming? Grein, Christoph
2003-01-10  8:21 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-01-10 15:51 ` Kevin Cline
2003-01-11 18:32   ` Dimension checking was " Robert C. Leif
2003-01-13 17:34     ` Stephen Leake [this message]
2003-01-13 23:20     ` Kevin Cline
2003-01-10 19:00 ` Kevin Cline
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