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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: HELP! ADA and Binary Strings
Date: 2000/03/19
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j80edd <j80edd@netscapeonline.co.uk> writes:

> In order to calculate then hamming distance the xor opperator is used on
> the two binary strings, and then the number of ones is counted. The
> problem is how to hold the binary strings. Is there any way in ada to
> access the binary value of a integer or character?  currently i am
> trying to us an array of an array of type boolean. Any help would be
> greatly appreciated.

Arrays of booleans have "xor".  Look up Unchecked_Conversion and pragma
Pack.  Also, perhaps, modular types.

- Bob