From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a1ce307c10055549 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-17 06:43:48 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!newsfeed.mathworks.com!cyclone.swbell.net!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!uunet!dfw.uu.net!ash.uu.net!world!news From: Robert A Duff Subject: Re: calenday (was Re: IBM Acquires Rational Ada User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Sender: news@world.std.com (Mr Usenet Himself) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 14:43:26 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:31952 Date: 2002-12-17T14:43:26+00:00 List-Id: "Grein, Christoph" writes: > RM 13.4(8) For nonboolean enumeration types, if the coding is not > specified for the type, then for each value of the type, the internal > code shall be equal to its position number. > > So your proposal is superfluous. And illegal, as our resident C++ guru pointed out. ;-) > And there is no global agreement whether the week starts with Sunday > or Monday. Historically, it starts with Sunday, but there are > countries where it starts with Monday. I read somewhere that there is an ISO standard for dates and times that says the week starts on Monday. However, I think I can quote a book that predates ISO by thousands of years, which says Sunday is the first day of the week. ;-) I go with Sunday first. - Bob