From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Surprise in array concatenation
Date: 5 Sep 2005 17:50:13 -0500
Date: 2005-09-05T17:50:13-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2CY$GoGxppcL@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wcck6hvnpsm.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com
In article <wcck6hvnpsm.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com>, Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> writes:
> "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam@spam.com> writes:
>
>> Gene wrote:
>>
>> > -- 'First is not always 1. How marginally
>> > Ada!
>>
>> 'First is not always 1 (or 0, or X) is a basic concept in Ada. It's only
>> if you don't know, or forget, this, and assume the behavior you learned
>> in lesser languages, that you have problems.
>>
>> I came to Ada from Pascal, so I was used to the lower bound not being
>> fixed,
>
> Heh? The lower (and upper!) bound of all array types in Pascal is
> fixed. And it has to be fixed at a static value. Every array object of
> a given type has the same fixed bounds.
>
> (Well, some version of Pascal added conformant arrays, which relaxed
> this requirement for formal parameters.)
That is true, in the same sense that some versions of Ada added
modular types -- they were added to the standard.
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Thread overview: 108+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-01 3:16 Surprise in array concatenation Gene
2005-09-01 7:55 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-09-01 8:02 ` Florian Weimer
2005-09-01 11:48 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-09-01 12:02 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2005-09-01 13:01 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-09-01 15:54 ` Florian Weimer
2005-09-01 16:09 ` Robert A Duff
2005-09-05 8:38 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2005-09-05 23:52 ` Robert A Duff
2005-09-06 9:03 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2005-09-07 17:57 ` adaworks
2005-09-07 20:01 ` Robert A Duff
2005-09-08 8:08 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2005-09-07 22:46 ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-09-08 4:43 ` Simon Wright
2005-09-08 10:36 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-09-08 13:47 ` Ed Falis
2005-09-08 17:03 ` Pascal Obry
2005-09-08 16:45 ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-09-08 19:37 ` Simon Wright
2005-09-08 6:32 ` adaworks
2005-09-08 9:09 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2005-09-08 16:56 ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-09-09 14:04 ` Bob Spooner
2005-09-09 16:17 ` adaworks
2005-09-23 23:04 ` Randy Brukardt
2005-09-14 8:57 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2005-09-23 23:09 ` Randy Brukardt
2005-09-24 10:49 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-09-24 20:27 ` Lurker
2005-09-25 0:20 ` Robert A Duff
2005-09-25 17:05 ` adaworks
2005-09-01 11:42 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-09-01 13:59 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-09-01 15:36 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-09-01 18:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-09-02 10:43 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-09-02 13:11 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-09-02 14:23 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-09-02 19:48 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-09-02 17:21 ` Björn Persson
2005-09-01 16:04 ` Robert A Duff
2005-09-01 18:06 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-09-02 10:42 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-09-02 13:20 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-09-02 14:14 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-09-02 19:48 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-09-03 20:01 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-09-04 10:13 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-09-05 13:22 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-09-05 15:50 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-09-05 18:20 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-09-05 18:31 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-09-06 8:20 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-09-06 11:52 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-09-06 13:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-09-06 15:51 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-09-06 21:32 ` Robert A Duff
2005-09-07 9:08 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-09-07 18:20 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-09-07 19:07 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-09-07 21:23 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-09-08 10:27 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-09-08 11:39 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-09-08 13:44 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-09-08 18:18 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-09-09 10:06 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-09-09 12:26 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-09-09 12:29 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-09-01 8:48 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2005-09-01 15:57 ` Robert A Duff
2005-09-01 21:42 ` Gene
2005-09-01 22:56 ` tmoran
2005-09-05 15:53 ` Gene
2005-09-05 17:47 ` jimmaureenrogers
2005-09-05 22:13 ` Robert A Duff
2005-09-06 8:24 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-09-05 19:22 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-09-05 21:54 ` Robert A Duff
2005-09-05 22:50 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2005-09-05 23:46 ` Robert A Duff
2005-09-12 3:59 ` Dave Thompson
2005-09-06 16:02 ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-09-06 21:00 ` Robert A Duff
2005-09-06 5:38 ` Pascal Obry
2005-09-05 21:48 ` Robert A Duff
2005-09-06 5:25 ` tmoran
2005-09-06 14:58 ` Robert A Duff
2005-09-06 9:26 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-09-06 15:00 ` Robert A Duff
2005-09-07 11:02 ` Thierry Pirot
2005-09-07 20:09 ` Robert A Duff
2005-09-06 13:22 ` Bob Spooner
2005-09-06 15:30 ` Robert A Duff
2005-09-06 16:12 ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-09-06 21:21 ` Robert A Duff
2005-09-02 20:19 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-09-03 12:51 ` Dr. Adrian Wrigley
2005-09-03 14:08 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2005-09-05 8:34 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2005-09-05 9:32 ` Arrays indexed by fixed point types (Was: Surprise in array concatenation) Jacob Sparre Andersen
2005-09-05 11:07 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2005-09-05 15:12 ` Dr. Adrian Wrigley
2005-09-05 12:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-09-05 13:07 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2005-09-05 15:10 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-09-05 11:29 ` Surprise in array concatenation Dr. Adrian Wrigley
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