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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,641f47d4563311a6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Jeff Carter Subject: Re: Array of bytes type Date: 2000/05/19 Message-ID: <3925B355.6C6565E6@acm.org>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 625554183 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <3924E094.6B03B5BD@concentric.net> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net 958775643 63.10.53.207 (Fri, 19 May 2000 15:34:03 PDT) Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: jrcarter@acm.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 15:34:03 PDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-05-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Joseph P Vlietstra wrote: > 1. Roll my own. For example: > type Byte_Array is array(Integer range <>) of > Interfaces.Unsigned_8; Why "Integer range <>"? Are the following likely to be meaningful or useful? A : Byte_Array (-350 .. -279); B : Byte_Array (-10 .. 10); I have generally found type Byte_List is array (Positive range <>) of Interfaces.Unsigned_8; useful. -- Jeff Carter "Son of a silly person." Monty Python & the Holy Grail