From: gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: need help learning Ada for a modula-2 programmer
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2014 08:00:42 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2014-02-02T08:00:42-08:00 [thread overview]
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> Is it correct that having a function return a fixed string is more
> flexible than a string param in a procedure? I am getting the sense
> that having a function return the string on the stack works by not
> setting its dimensions in advance, but a param has to set them in
> advance. So the trick is to use the stack for strings by recursion,
> as you just did?
You perfectly got the advantage of using a function for obtaining a String (or any unconstrained type) whose length (or range(s) or parameters) is not known in advance.
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2014-01-28 1:06 need help learning Ada for a modula-2 programmer agent
2014-01-28 1:33 ` adambeneschan
2014-01-28 1:52 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-01-28 12:18 ` Brian Drummond
2014-02-02 2:47 ` agent
2014-02-02 6:09 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-02-02 15:02 ` agent
2014-02-02 16:00 ` gautier_niouzes [this message]
2014-02-02 19:48 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-02-03 8:24 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-02-02 17:18 ` Brian Drummond
2014-02-03 0:10 ` agent
2014-02-03 0:36 ` agent
2014-02-03 12:53 ` Brian Drummond
2014-01-28 22:51 ` Jerry
2014-01-29 12:15 ` Mike H
2014-01-29 20:41 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2014-01-29 23:52 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-01-30 9:05 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2014-01-30 14:20 ` Mike H
2014-01-30 14:35 ` Bill Findlay
2014-01-30 15:40 ` Mike H
2014-01-30 23:39 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-01-31 20:16 ` Mike H
2014-01-29 23:52 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-01-30 1:44 ` Bill Findlay
2014-01-30 2:01 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-01-30 12:24 ` Simon Wright
2014-01-30 23:38 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-02-03 23:12 ` agent
2014-02-04 6:10 ` J-P. Rosen
2014-02-04 22:38 ` agent
2014-01-29 16:58 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2014-01-29 20:43 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-01-29 22:53 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-01-30 12:13 ` Simon Wright
2014-01-30 17:05 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2014-01-30 23:21 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-01-30 4:29 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2014-01-30 8:45 ` Where to put change descriptions (Was: need help learning Ada for a modula-2 programmer) Jacob Sparre Andersen
2014-01-30 9:53 ` need help learning Ada for a modula-2 programmer Georg Bauhaus
2014-01-30 21:58 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-01-30 16:28 ` Pascal Obry
2014-01-30 17:43 ` Marius Amado-Alves
2014-01-30 18:10 ` Simon Wright
2014-01-30 22:38 ` Randy Brukardt
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