Re: Expectation of Access Value Equality

[Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@crs4.it>]

Nick Roberts wrote:

> (a) Would you be surprised by:
> 
>    Print( (+"foo",+"bar",+"",+"") );
> 
> printing three lines?

Not really.  But I don't think I would code like that, because I am
uncertain of the meaning and would have to look the gory details up in
the LRM.

> (b) Would you be surprised by:
> 
>    Print( (+"foo",+"bar",+"hum",+"foo") );
> 
> printing one line?

As above.

> (c) What would you think of an implementation that caused this behaviour?
> (What would you think of an implementation that printed four lines in both
> cases?)

That depends on what the LRM says on the subject.  (haven't checked it)

> (d) I'd be grateful for a very brief indication of your level and broad
> area(s) of programming experience, in Ada and other languages.

I have used Ada for my work since 1995.  Before that I used Borland
Pascal.  In addition to that I have programmed a bit in Fortran,
COMAL-80, BASIC (Sinclair, ABC and MS versions), C, C++, Erlang, OCaml
and a few other (mostly procedural) languages.

I am not a programmer by profession or education.

Jacob
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