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: 103376,38c827f7e800d317 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-07-05 22:15:53 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-pas-nf2!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3F07B075.8020807@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: conversion References: <3EFCC18B.4040904@attbi.com> <3F079D10.2060709@attbi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2003 05:13:24 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.17.197 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1057468404 63.184.17.197 (Sat, 05 Jul 2003 22:13:24 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2003 22:13:24 PDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:40087 Date: 2003-07-06T05:13:24+00:00 List-Id: Robert I. Eachus wrote: > > Dishes: Ragged_Array := (+"black pudding", > +"crab soup", > +"steak & kidney pie", > +"lemon tart"); I think we should allow the unary function "\" for this kind of thing, so we can drive C people crazy by writing Dishes : Ragged_Array := (\"black pudding", \"crab soup", \"steak & kidney pie", \"lemon tart"); -- Jeff Carter "This trial is a travesty. It's a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham. ... Do you realize there's not a single homosexual on that jury?" Bananas