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: 103376,71c743c03ed191fe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-09-20 09:42:22 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!torn!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D8B4D6F.1000608@cogeco.ca> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Beginer problem: variable array size References: <38993b18.0209191906.b56b982@posting.google.com> <1032533590.712308@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 12:31:43 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.47.195 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1032539504 198.96.47.195 (Fri, 20 Sep 2002 12:31:44 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 12:31:44 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:29229 Date: 2002-09-20T12:31:43-04:00 List-Id: Hyman Rosen wrote: > Larry Kilgallen wrote: ... > MDC wrote: > > The reality is that by putting a requirement out there > > that there must be no limit on the number of elements > > accepted, you create a difficulty that doesn't normally > > exist in the real world. > > I've talked about this before. Until the GNU people came > along and rewrote the UNIX text utilities, they would > constantly and inconsistently return wrong results because > of arbitrary limits, such as maximum line sizes. To this day, > I cannot use vi on a Sun in an xterm that is "too wide". ... I remember hitting line length limits on SCO UNIX's _xterm_ sessions. Grrrr. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg