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"Nick Roberts" <nickroberts@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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[snip]
> (a) Would you be surprised by:
>
>    Print( (+"foo",+"bar",+"",+"") );
>
> printing three lines?

No.

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

No.

> (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?)

I would think that an implementation taking advantage of common strings
might have produce a smaller footprint by default.  This example gives me
more of an opinion of the quality of the source code (ambiguous) than the
quality of the compiler.  It looks more like the "C" way of doing things
than the Ada way.

> (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.

Programmed various systems used in industrial automation.  Some hard, some
soft real-time.

Languages:
  Ada 95, Pascal (EPascal, Turbo Pascal, Delphi), C, FORTH
  HP-1000 Assembly, C++, FORTRAN

Prefer:
  Ada 95

Operating Systems:
  PDOS, VersaDOS, VaxELN, VxWorks, Windows NT

(BTW: I only listed systems I have actually USED, I have tinkered with
Modula2, Linux, RTEMS ).

Steve
(The Duck)

> I would be very grateful for as many people replying as possible,
preferably
> in this news group, but privately if you prefer. Thanks.
>
> --
> Nick Roberts
> E-mail: nickroberts@blueyonder.co.uk
> Jabber: debater@charente.de [ICQ: 159718630]
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