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-Thread: 103376,db88d0444fafe8eb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!193.252.118.146.MISMATCH!news.wanadoo.fr!news.wanadoo.fr!not-for-mail Message-ID: <431D2B61.9060803@obry.net> Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 07:38:41 +0200 From: Pascal Obry Organization: Home - http://www.obry.net User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: fr, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada To: Gene Subject: Re: Surprise in array concatenation References: <1125610942.747981.280770@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <1125935610.797293.40550@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1125935610.797293.40550@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit NNTP-Posting-Date: 06 Sep 2005 07:38:45 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.120.30.162 X-Trace: 1125985125 news.wanadoo.fr 1004 82.120.30.162:2315 X-Complaints-To: abuse@wanadoo.fr Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4463 Date: 2005-09-06T07:38:45+02:00 List-Id: Gene a �crit : > quickly added a comment, -- 'First is not always 1. How marginally > Ada! Maybe because Ada is good at modeling the problem-space and that arrays there do not necessary have numerical index and when it is the case they don't eventually start at 1. Others have pointed out lot of problems that are better modeled with non numerical indexes or indexes not starting at 1. Pascal. -- --|------------------------------------------------------ --| Pascal Obry Team-Ada Member --| 45, rue Gabriel Peri - 78114 Magny Les Hameaux FRANCE --|------------------------------------------------------ --| http://www.obry.net --| "The best way to travel is by means of imagination" --| --| gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-key C1082595