Re: Are there noticable differences in Ada acceptance by country?

On Mar 21, 12:21 pm, gp...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> On Mar 21, 12:39 pm, Simon Wright <simon.j.wri...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > gp...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 writes:
> > > From my own C experience: using code from different sources X and Y
> > > coordinates in function calls were in different order: foo(x,y);
> > > boo(height, width), etc. Easy to overlook.
>
> > That was my point (I expect I failed to make it properly): if you use
> > a record for Coordinate, your chance of getting the components the
> > wrong way round is hugely reduced, and I don't think the added value
> > of making the H & V components different _types_ is worth the added
> > cost.
>
> Is there any runtime cost of using new type if no range is defined?

Very unlikely, I think.  I think the type of "cost" Simon was talking
about was the added burden (on both writer and reader) of additional
type conversions cluttering up the code, when (in this case) they
probably accomplish very little in the way of preventing programmer
errors.

                                -- Adam