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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5b3c19b1631bb558 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-11-02 18:26:10 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!europa.netcrusader.net!63.211.125.72!cyclone2.usenetserver.com!news-out.usenetserver.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net!newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3A02223E.5DE97B78@acm.org> From: Jeff Carter X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Reflection (was: Re: The best thing/greatest feature summary) References: <0O9M5.381209$i5.6373651@news1.frmt1.sfba.home.com> <8tro07$j76$1@hobbes2.crc.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 02:26:08 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.178.185.36 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 973218368 63.178.185.36 (Thu, 02 Nov 2000 18:26:08 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 18:26:08 PST Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:1734 Date: 2000-11-03T02:26:08+00:00 List-Id: "David C. Hoos, Sr." wrote: > Last : constant Positive := Ada.Strings.Fixed.Index > (S (1 .. S'Last - 2), ".", Ada.Strings.Backward) - 1; I prefer not to have magic numbers like 2 in the code. It's worth the extra call to Index to me. > Name : constant String := S (1 .. Last); > One.P; --> ONE > One.Q; --> ONE.Q > Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line (Me.Name); --> TEST_REFLECTION And I really prefer to see these in Mixed_Case. -- Jeff Carter "Illegitimate-faced bugger-folk!" Monty Python & the Holy Grail