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-Thread: 103376,91965a012526b259 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!elnk-pas-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Float to String References: <24Bkd.74362$HA.12207@attbi_s01> <9qNkd.24057$KJ6.14615@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <6vTkd.872$G36.587@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 00:30:58 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.9.64 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net 1100219458 63.184.9.64 (Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:30:58 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:30:58 PST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6161 Date: 2004-11-12T00:30:58+00:00 List-Id: David C. Hoos, Sr. wrote: > No, it is not an error. Note that the Separators > string contains three characters, blank, plus, and minus. > > So, To_Real wants one of those three characters to > separate the mantissa and the exponent. So it does. Sorry. Despite looking at that at least 3 times, I managed to miss the space. -- Jeff Carter "No one is to stone anyone until I blow this whistle, do you understand? Even--and I want to make this absolutely clear--even if they do say, 'Jehova.'" Monty Python's Life of Brian 74