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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b1208117d36fb121 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-19 08:06:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CC03241.883A6E33@despammed.com> From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wesgroleau@despammed.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: System.Address'Size - not a static integer expression? References: <665e587a.0203060957.3682edf7@posting.google.com> <5ee5b646.0204072057.48d33742@posting.google.com> <3CB1B473.CF6E93AD@despammed.com> <5ee5b646.0204091754.5dcfd16d@posting.google.com> <3CB47947.466E0E81@despammed.com> <5ee5b646.0204121220.606ecc36@posting.google.com> <3CB74D37.973A4C19@despammed.com> <5ee5b646.0204141201.1ffab2d8@posting.google.com> <3CBAEE01.D17C2DB0@despammed.com> <5ee5b646.0204161911.687f3144@posting.google.com> <3CBDBE76.F4FF3905@despammed.com> <5ee5b646.0204190606.4855f886@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 10:05:37 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1019228764 151.168.144.162 (Fri, 19 Apr 2002 11:06:04 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 11:06:04 EDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22786 Date: 2002-04-19T10:05:37-05:00 List-Id: > Wes insists on his memory, but cannot and/or will not provide > any evidence. Furthermore, he admits that he was seriously > confused about the meaning of static (my best guess is that Not really. I just assumed the common meaning of static (non-chnging) used in most computer science classes--even those that teach C which has a REALLY wierd special meaning. So Ada ever-so-slightly redefines it for convenience. Nothing wrong with that, but I didn't know way back then. > Wes saw something about the value of Size being dynamic, and > since at that time he thought that static was the opposite of > dynamic (it is not) he probably got confused :-) Now that is entirely possible. They are not opposites in the RM, but they are opposites in general use. -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau