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Subject: Re: 'first of strings returned from a function should be 1?
Date: 1997/07/29
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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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