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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Surprise in array concatenation
Date: 5 Sep 2005 17:50:13 -0500
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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.