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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,cd703a96ca51de6e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!texta.sil.at!newsfeed.inode.at!news.hispeed.ch!linux2.krischik.com!news From: Martin Krischik Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: 'Base Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 11:59:12 +0100 Organization: Cablecom Newsserver Message-ID: <3160261.8c8stU82yb@linux1.krischik.com> References: <1134055303.758950.308680@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <2038690.eAzdaEvAON@linux1.krischik.com> <1134160956.403383.29180@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <1170126.PvJVGQkA4J@linux1.krischik.com> <+4h0U$wAqq9b@eisner.encompasserve.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: 84-73-0-2.dclient.hispeed.ch Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: news.hispeed.ch 1134300632 31742 84.73.0.2 (11 Dec 2005 11:30:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@hispeed.ch NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 11:30:32 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: KNode/0.9.2 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6823 Date: 2005-12-11T11:59:12+01:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > In article <1170126.PvJVGQkA4J@linux1.krischik.com>, Martin Krischik > writes: >> ada_student@yahoo.com wrote: >> >>> Indefinite subtypes cannot be allowed under any circumstances. >>> It sounds like a hack just inorder to allow one class of array >>> object declarations into the language. >> >> No at all. Ada is a higher level language then C/C++ or Java. It allows >> for >> better abstraction which is closer to real live. In real live arrays >> seldom beginn with zero: >> >> Weekdays 1 .. 7 >> Month 1 .. 31 >> Year 1 .. 366 > > Only for students of early Christianity. Well I was lazy and did not want to type Day_Of_Month. I hope the OP still got the drift. Martin -- mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net Ada programming at: http://ada.krischik.com