From: Gary Scott <Gary.L.Scott@lmtas.lmco.com>
Subject: Re: How to make like Fortran "do i = 1,20,2"
Date: 2000/07/27
Date: 2000-07-27T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <39805669.3E7CF6CF@lmtas.lmco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: T47$ewqox+R8@eisner.decus.org
Hmmm, these and similar examples posted do not make Ada look very
elegant...it makes a very simple concept seem somewhat convoluted.
Larry Kilgallen wrote:
>
> In article <8lpcbe$40n$1@news.uit.no>, reinert@ola.npolar.no (Reinert Korsnes) writes:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > How can one in Ada elegantly make a loop through each 2 element of an array ?
> > I am looking for something like: "do i = 1,20,2" in Fortran, or
> >
> > for I in A'range ("step 2") loop
> > something...
> > end loop;
>
> ===========
>
> for I in A'range loop
> if (I - A'first) mod 2 = 0
> then
> null;
> end if;
> end loop;
>
> But of course that does nothing to ensure that A'length is an even number.
>
> ===========
>
> for I2 in A'first/2 .. A'last/2 loop
> declare
> I : INTEGER := I2*2;
> begin
> null;
> end;
> end loop;
>
> That approach will have problems if either A'length is an odd
> number or if either limit of A'range is an odd number.
>
> ===========
>
> But what does Fortran do in those negative and odd number cases ?
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-07-27 0:00 How to make like Fortran "do i = 1,20,2" Reinert Korsnes
2000-07-27 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-07-27 0:00 ` Gary Scott [this message]
2000-07-27 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-07-27 0:00 ` mjsilva
2000-07-27 0:00 ` Matthew J Heaney
2000-07-28 0:00 ` Gary Scott
2000-07-28 0:00 ` mjsilva
2000-07-29 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
2000-07-28 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
[not found] ` <39833637.3B83BFAC@lmtas.lmco.com>
2000-07-29 0:00 ` Gary Scott
2000-07-29 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-07-27 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
2000-07-27 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-27 0:00 ` des walker
2000-07-27 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-07-28 0:00 ` Reinert Korsnes
2000-07-28 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-07-29 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-07-27 0:00 ` Gary Scott
2000-07-27 0:00 ` G. de Montmollin
2000-07-27 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
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