From: nobody@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous)
Subject: Re: 'first of strings returned from a function should be 1?
Date: 1997/07/29
Date: 1997-07-29T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199707291314.PAA24611@basement.replay.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: EE1DJ2.LnI@world.std.com
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On Mon, 28 Jul 1997 15:54:37 GMT, bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)
wrote:
> Ada would be a better language if there were a (convenient) way to
> specify that the lower bound of an array is fixed, and that the
> upper bound is not. And if the predefined type String used that
> feature to specify that the lower bound of all Strings is 1, whereas
> the upper bound is different for different strings.
Given:
procedure P (S : in out String);
..
V : String (1 .. 100);
..
P (V (5 .. 96) );
What happens inside P? Does this part of V have a lower bound of 1
inside P but a lower bound of 5 outside?
Jeff Carter PGP:1024/440FBE21
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1997-07-26 0:00 ` 'first of strings returned from a function should be 1? Matthew Heaney
1997-07-27 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1997-07-27 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1997-07-27 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1997-07-27 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1997-07-27 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-07-27 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1997-07-27 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-07-27 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-07-28 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-07-29 0:00 ` Anonymous [this message]
1997-07-30 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-07-30 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
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