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: 103376,9c9db81a63ddf1fe X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool1.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 23:08:11 +0200 From: Georg Bauhaus User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: extended membership tests (branch) References: <7dc23d58-4a48-4444-90cd-7f9786b19aad@i14g2000yqe.googlegroups.com> <4d94aba4$0$7656$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net> <247eef65-9ff3-4268-af73-e74d092c1e82@k10g2000prh.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <247eef65-9ff3-4268-af73-e74d092c1e82@k10g2000prh.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <4d94ed3b$0$6876$9b4e6d93@newsspool2.arcor-online.net> Organization: Arcor NNTP-Posting-Date: 31 Mar 2011 23:08:11 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 36d9058a.newsspool2.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=g:`neWD@TNefF8a^:6>b7eA9EHlD;3Ycb4Fo<]lROoRa8kFejVhAclQ?664X9hd0iKYeR`lBc X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:19603 Date: 2011-03-31T23:08:11+02:00 List-Id: On 3/31/11 8:54 PM, Adam Beneschan wrote: >> for b in b1 in b1 .. b1 loop >> null; >> end loop; > > See AARM 3.5(3.a). "for b in" has to be followed by either a subtype > name, a 'Range attribute, or two "simple expressions" with .. between > them. In the last case, the bounds must be "simple expressions", not > general expressions. The syntax of simple_expressions doesn't allow > membership tests (except in parentheses). So the above is illegal. > This rule has been there since Ada 95. Thank you. Now I have one more reason to like parentheses around Boolean expressions outside conditionals. :-)