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: 103376,789b3fa522bdcc2a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-04 16:09:09 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newspeer.monmouth.com!nntp1.phx1.gblx.net!nntp.gblx.net!nntp.gblx.net!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3E8E1EAC.7080000@spam.com> From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Optimising string handling in application References: <1049198066.356477@edh3> <1049267738.39983@edh3> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2003 00:08:28 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.16.135 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1049501308 63.184.16.135 (Fri, 04 Apr 2003 16:08:28 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 16:08:28 PST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:35942 Date: 2003-04-05T00:08:28+00:00 List-Id: Frode Tenneboe wrote: > Follow-up question: Is it safe to asume that strings _allways_ > start with 'First = 1 (provided the (sub)type starts with 1) except when > passing slices where 'First = start_of_slice? Objects of your subtype always have 'First = 1. Parameters of type String may have 'First = any value in Positive. -- Jeff Carter "English bed-wetting types." Monty Python & the Holy Grail