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Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
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From: Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>
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Jim Rogers <jimmaureenrogers@att.net> writes:

> One Ada feature that cannot be implemented through any container library
> is the ability to define a range-restricted floating point type. You can
> do this in C++, but not through the use of a template. Templates cannot 
> take floating point values as parameters.

Is that still true ? I have never understood why there was such
restriction...

Pascal.

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