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: a07f3367d7,caabf5265fad78e5 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!e21g2000yqb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Ludovic Brenta Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: unsigned type Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:31:53 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <59O1m.404661$4m1.69194@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net> <36286c5a-99f0-4ed9-8ef0-11d7af230216@e21g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.98.68.197 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1246350713 27137 127.0.0.1 (30 Jun 2009 08:31:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:31:53 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: e21g2000yqb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=153.98.68.197; posting-account=pcLQNgkAAAD9TrXkhkIgiY6-MDtJjIlC User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009012111 Red Hat/3.0.6-1.el5 Firefox/3.0.6,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:6748 Date: 2009-06-30T01:31:53-07:00 List-Id: anon wrote on comp.lang.ada: > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Always use Standards. That one of many reason the Standar= d package > exist. Its defines those standards. But in teaching Ada, prof allow the > student to create their own all the time, a bad programming concept. =A0S= o, > the student assume wrongly that they can bypass standards and cause melt > downs and programming errors. Where standards help prevent those errors. Are you trying to suggest that user-defined types are not part of the Ada standard? Then can you explain why you think RM 3.2.1 is not part of the standard? -- Ludovic Brenta.