Re: Why no new posts ?

["DuckE" <nospam_steved94@home.com>]

The best way I have found to find out what's available in the standard
libraries that are included with Ada 95 is to peruse Appendix A of the Ada
95 LRM (Language Reference Manual).

You can find the reference manual at:

 http://www.adaic.org/standards/ada95.html

The LRM is not intended as a document from which to learn Ada 95, so use
your text books for that, but it is a good reference.

SteveD

"JF Harrison" <madscientist@colulus.net> wrote in message
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> My second basic question is just for converting types.
>   For example, is there a simple way to convert a string '123' into an
> integer - is there a simple command for this in Ada?  The previous post
> included a for loop for doing this, but perhaps there is just a way to use
> Get to grab it out of a string, or perhaps Ada has a ready made function
to
> do this in the standard package.
>
>   Similarly, is there a simple way to convert Integers into Floats?  The
> strong typing protection in Ada is great, but when you have an integer and
> actually want to save it as a Float, how to do it (standard function)?  I
> have John English's beginner's text, and Norman Cohen's Ada as a Second
> Language; I scoured these today but didnt find an answer.
>   I would also like to know if there is a standard function for generating
> floats.  For example, Float(mantissa, exponent) = mantissa * 10 **
exponent,
> or Floater(mantissa, radix, exponent) = mantissa * radix ** exponent.  I
> know how to do these for literals - ie 8#1.2#E4  or 5E3 - but I need to be
> able to use a variable for the exponent.  There must be such a function, I
> just havent run accross it yet.
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> JF Harrison
>