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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: output of enumeration types
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 09:31:05 +0200
Date: 2005-04-19T09:30:34+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1gv02c5pwbx1e$.sugmeiie353z$.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: d41ars$3eo$1@achot.icm.edu.pl

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 00:04:04 +0200, Staszek Goldstein wrote:

> I have got the following problem: having defined
> type roman_digit is ('I','V','X','L','C','D','M');
> type roman_number is array (positive range <>) of roman_digit;

But Roman number is not an array of letters. As others have pointed out 'I'
is not a digit. It can represent or not a decimal position depending on the
context. For example in 'XIII', the "digits" are 'X' and 'III'. Anyway it
should rather be:

type Roman_Number is range 1..3999;

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de



  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-04-19  7:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-18 22:04 output of enumeration types Staszek Goldstein
2005-04-18 22:35 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-04-18 22:43   ` Staszek Goldstein
2005-04-18 23:35   ` Staszek Goldstein
2005-04-19  0:07     ` Stephen Leake
2005-04-19  0:43       ` Staszek Goldstein
2005-04-19  4:56         ` Martin Krischik
2005-04-19 18:57         ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-04-20  0:40           ` Staszek Goldstein
2005-04-20  1:38             ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-04-19  0:33     ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-04-19  0:51       ` Staszek Goldstein
2005-04-19 23:40         ` Stephen Leake
2005-04-20  0:17           ` Staszek Goldstein
2005-04-20  9:53             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-04-20 23:16             ` Stephen Leake
2005-04-19  0:59       ` Staszek Goldstein
2005-04-19  1:54 ` Robert A Duff
2005-04-19  3:03   ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-04-19 10:34   ` output and digits Staszek Goldstein
2005-04-20 13:56     ` Robert A Duff
2005-04-20 19:53       ` Staszek Goldstein
2005-04-19  3:04 ` output of enumeration types Steve
2005-04-19  7:31 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2005-04-19  7:49   ` Szymon Guz
2005-04-19  8:11     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-04-19 11:26     ` Marius Amado Alves
2005-04-19 12:56       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-04-19 13:57         ` Marius Amado Alves
2005-04-19 16:05       ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-04-19 17:55         ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-04-19 21:39           ` Florian Weimer
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