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From: joakimds@kth.se
Subject: Re: gnat.string_split , howto manipulate slice numbers
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:30:29 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2019-10-31T02:30:29-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <22cb257e-36af-42e6-b969-ed22bd7ae3a6@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lyimo6xyfk.fsf@pushface.org>

> >
> > Another reason is to distinguish index/key from position. When both
> > are subtypes of integer some bugs may slip through, e.g.
> >
> >    A (A'Length - 1)
> >
> > This is broken code, but the compiler cannot detect it.
> 
> How is it broken?
> 

The index should be an index from A'First to A'Last and using A'Length does not guarantee A'Length - 1 being a valid index. Hmm... how to fix it in the best possible way? Or just accept it being an edge case Ada does not detect at compile-time?

Best regards,
Joakim

  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-31  9:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-29  1:54 gnat.string_split , howto manipulate slice numbers Alain De Vos
2019-10-29  8:17 ` briot.emmanuel
2019-10-29 16:56   ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2019-10-29 19:36     ` Niklas Holsti
2019-10-29 23:06       ` J-P. Rosen
2019-11-01  9:45         ` joakimds
2019-10-29 23:36   ` Stephen Leake
2019-10-29  8:35 ` Simon Wright
2019-10-29 11:08   ` Alain De Vos
2019-10-29 11:20     ` Alain De Vos
2019-10-29 16:44       ` J-P. Rosen
2019-10-29 16:47       ` Simon Wright
2019-10-29 18:33         ` J-P. Rosen
2019-10-29 19:37           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-10-30 11:30             ` Simon Wright
2019-10-31  9:30               ` joakimds [this message]
2019-10-31 10:12               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-10-31 18:36                 ` J-P. Rosen
2019-11-01  9:39                   ` joakimds
2019-10-29 16:41   ` Simon Wright
2019-10-29 16:53 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
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