From: Keith Thompson <kst@cts.com>
Subject: Re: Decimal Floating point was RE: Information Systems Annex was RE: Dispatching and generics - language lawyer question
Date: 15 Aug 2002 23:26:11 -0700
Date: 2002-08-15T23:26:11-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yecr8gzjp4s.fsf@king.cts.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1029448502.10542.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
"Robert C. Leif" <rleif@rleif.com> writes:
> Since intermediate values in a calculation how a low frequency of being
> printed out, the simplest solution to digits is to leave it at a fixed
> value, which will usually be the maximum number of digits allowed. This
> simplifies the use of precompiled datatypes. Only one for each value of
> digits needs to be created.
>
> Since Ada has a function Ada.Unchecked_Conversion(S : Source) return
> Target; she does permit a change in types. In the case of the delta, I
> am proposing what I hope is much less extreme. I want to tell the
> compiler to accept a non-static number as a static number. Since this is
> not a type change but the change of a property of a type, I do not know
> how to do this?
You "want to tell the compiler to accept a non-static number as a
static number". That barely even makes sense, and I don't believe
it's what you really need.
You're saying you want to use a non-static value in a context where
the language requires a static value. Coercing the compiler to accept
a non-static value in such a context is not a "much less extreme" way
to do this, and a pragma is not an appropriate way to specify it.
I think you're jumping from what you want to be able to do to a
proposed implementation. Unfortunately, the implementation you're
proposing is not workable.
What problem are you trying to solve?
--
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San Diego Supercomputer Center <*> <http://www.sdsc.edu/~kst>
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2002-07-24 5:33 Dispatching and generics - language lawyer question Grein, Christoph
2002-07-24 22:55 ` Robert A Duff
2002-07-25 15:46 ` Ben Brosgol
2002-07-29 20:38 ` Robert A Duff
2002-07-31 22:52 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-07-31 20:18 ` Robert A Duff
2002-08-02 1:15 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-08-01 16:30 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-08-02 23:42 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-08-02 15:49 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-08-02 17:48 ` Stephen Leake
2002-08-10 3:03 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-08-05 11:15 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2002-08-12 12:44 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-13 2:00 ` Information Systems Annex was " Robert C. Leif
2002-08-13 8:17 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-13 23:53 ` Information Systems Annex Robert C. Leif
2002-08-13 17:37 ` Information Systems Annex was RE: Dispatching and generics - language lawyer question Keith Thompson
2002-08-13 23:53 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-08-14 8:52 ` Keith Thompson
2002-08-14 21:53 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-08-15 9:31 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-15 21:54 ` Decimal Floating point was " Robert C. Leif
2002-08-16 6:26 ` Keith Thompson [this message]
2002-08-16 16:26 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-08-16 18:17 ` Keith Thompson
2002-08-16 15:26 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-16 15:29 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-15 9:26 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-15 16:17 ` Darren New
2002-08-15 17:25 ` David C. Hoos
2002-08-15 17:31 ` Darren New
2002-08-15 19:59 ` Frank J. Lhota
2002-08-15 17:39 ` tmoran
2002-08-15 19:18 ` Information Systems Annex was RE: Dispatching and generics - Larry Kilgallen
2002-08-15 18:41 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-08-16 15:49 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-17 6:31 ` Simon Wright
2002-08-17 14:17 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-15 21:54 ` Decimal Floating types was RE: Information Systems Annex was RE: Dispatching and generics - language lawyer question Robert C. Leif
2002-08-16 15:21 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-16 16:15 ` Decimal Floating types Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-08-17 10:52 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-17 14:30 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-08-20 0:26 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-20 2:35 ` SteveD
2002-08-22 18:15 ` Richard Riehle
2002-08-23 3:23 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-16 15:47 ` Information Systems Annex (usefulness of Decimal Floats) Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-08-17 10:54 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-17 14:06 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-08-17 10:56 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-17 14:12 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-08-17 19:04 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-08-20 0:25 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-16 15:38 ` Information Systems Annex was RE: Dispatching and generics - language lawyer question Robert Dewar
2002-08-13 22:50 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-08-14 0:02 ` Robert A Duff
2002-07-25 0:40 ` Robert Dewar
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