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: 103376,1116ece181be1aea X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-01 05:34:32 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!sjc70.webusenet.com!news.webusenet.com!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3F7AC9C9.6090903@noplace.com> From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada? References: <1064527575.648809@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3F739C1D.4030907@attbi.com> <3F78E850.8010401@comcast.net> <3F79751F.3000709@noplace.com> <0k2jnvc2hh1ovrj6v6qqa5jh8ddotduj79@4ax.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 12:34:29 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 165.247.66.46 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net 1065011669 165.247.66.46 (Wed, 01 Oct 2003 05:34:29 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 05:34:29 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:62 Date: 2003-10-01T12:34:29+00:00 List-Id: Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > > Which means that Unbounded_String has to be a subtype of String. > Why? You create some package that has an "Open" procedrue that uses an Unbounded_String as the filename parameter - why does it have to be a subtype of String? Maybe if we got to design the language from the ground up there would have been a better way of implementing all this so you could have strings of fixed or indeterminate length and uased them interchangably. Given that we can't do that, I guess we could get the same net effect by having some wider variety of packages with different parameter types for the same functions. MDC -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ a c m . o r g "All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for." --Logan Pearsall Smith ======================================================================