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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2e66fe8b30e3ee2c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Marin David Condic Subject: Re: S'Write and How To Count Bytes Date: 2000/10/11 Message-ID: <39E47814.DDFDA4CF@acm.org>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 680155401 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <39D6891A.7DC448B6@acm.org><39D88ACE.92DF8897@acm.org> <8raa11$nmg$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3A061E9A.B8F76112@telepath.com> <39DF3347.38C82563@acm.org> <8rt642$g5r$1@wanadoo.fr> X-Accept-Language: en X-Server-Date: 11 Oct 2000 14:24:50 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Quadrus Corporation Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-10-11T14:24:50+00:00 List-Id: Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote: > Well, the cover says: "Ada : the language. The standard libraries". One could argue that everything after the cardboard page belongs > to the standard libraries and not the language... > Ahhhh. But I said "if I were the judge" - so "Overruled!" :-) > > Picky lawyer hat off: Of course, "language defined types" applies to all types defined in the LRM. :-) Well, if you were to exclude Ada.Strings.Unbounded.Unbounded_String as not being a language defined type, on what basis might you say that Standard.String *was* a language defined type? They are both defined in packages specified by the ARM and they appear in appendices. The only difference would be names. That's why I figured it would have to apply. Of course this is not necessarily the thinking that might be applied by a compiler vendor with a non-compliant compiler and no inexpensive fix available. That's when the lawyers come onto the scene and start bayonetting the wounded. :-) MDC -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic - Quadrus Corporation - http://www.quadruscorp.com/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ q u a d r u s c o r p . c o m Visit my web site at: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Giving money and power to Government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." -- P. J. O'Rourke ======================================================================