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=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,PLING_QUERY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,b6d862eabdeb1fc4 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!nntp.TheWorld.com!not-for-mail From: Robert A Duff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada noob here! Is Ada widely used? Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2010 18:56:49 -0400 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Message-ID: References: <0e88de66-128c-48fd-9b9f-fdb4357f318a@z17g2000vbd.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: pcls4.std.com 1275778595 9868 192.74.137.71 (5 Jun 2010 22:56:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 22:56:35 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (irix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:YZxx+iXqNvsZ82thqzdroEYXC68= Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:12298 Date: 2010-06-05T18:56:49-04:00 List-Id: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" writes: > BTW, as the name suggest "complex" is not "elementary"! (:-)) The name Generic_Complex_Elementary_Functions is amusing (see G.1.2). ;-) > Well, in fact I don't know why ARM defines that, because beyond the name > there is nothing that could distinguish them from other types. Well, elementary types are pass-by-copy, but you're basically right -- there's not much to distinguish them from composite types. - Bob