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: 103376,9e91bd3f3ee80c47 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!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:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: reverse Integer'image(someString); References: <426cb55e$0$30475$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <0ahbe.971$Oz2.651@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 01:53:00 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.240.242.205 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net 1114480380 4.240.242.205 (Mon, 25 Apr 2005 18:53:00 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 18:53:00 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10709 Date: 2005-04-26T01:53:00+00:00 List-Id: David C. Hoos, Sr. wrote: > Jeff C" wrote in message > news:KIednSCHV-GzTfHfRVn-qw@comcast.com... > >> declare >> Some_String : constant String := Integer'Image(Some_Integer); >> begin >> ...play with Some_String >> end; > > The "constant" in the declaration of Some_String is not only > unnecessary, but would prevent some types of "playing" > with Some_String. It should be there, unless the "playing" modifies Some_String. -- Jeff Carter "I'm a kike, a yid, a heebie, a hook nose! I'm Kosher, Mum! I'm a Red Sea pedestrian, and proud of it!" Monty Python's Life of Brian 77