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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fa18fb47ddd229a7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-12-10 12:40:13 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!news-out.visi.com!petbe.visi.com!eusc.inter.net!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.com!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail From: Martin Krischik Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: RE: Proposed change to BC iterator parameters Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 18:39:28 +0100 Organization: AdaCL Message-ID: <2189247.z5XxeM7I45@linux1.krischik.com> References: Reply-To: krischik@users.sourceforge.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1071088791 06 2498 GPjbGrDOb141Kdh 031210 20:39:51 X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@t-online.de X-ID: r4HAAkZCwe3rxONqtDHA0edyraD0i2LTMTTb1e7WoMlfF6N1q8No47 User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3331 Date: 2003-12-10T18:39:28+01:00 List-Id: amado.alves wrote: > indefinite formals, but I pass well without limited ones. Most limited > formals I've seen in libraries are accompanied by a formal assignment > operation or some such, which prety much defeats the purpose of their > (formal) limitedness, i.e. their logic is in clash with their definition. Well there is one exception here. It's File_Type. I can see the need to write a container to a file with the help of an iterator. Here limited might help. Remember: we talk about an extra parameter to the iterator and not about the data stored inside the container. With Regards Martin -- mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net http://adacl.sourceforge.net