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From: "Kevin J. Weise" <kweise@c3i-ccmail.sed.redstone.army.mil>
Subject: Re: Newbie question (Range Specifiers)
Date: 1996/06/20
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"Sandeep V. Kharkar" <skharkar@vzcorp.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>	I've recently started studying the Ada95 language.
>	First experience with Ada...
>
>	In the book I found a grammer rule for range specifiers
>	which goes
>
>	range_spec ::= name ' range ( static_expression )
>
>	but I found no examples of the use of this grammer rule.
>	
>	What is this syntax used for ??
>
>	I figure that the [name'range] means the range
>	of the variable name. But what interpretation does the
>	braketed static expression have on the range ??
>-- 

I've been in this business long enough that the region in my brain previously 
occupied by the Ada83 LRM has been recovered and filled with application-specific 
trivia; there isn't enough room left to memorize the Ada95 LRM.  But in a brief scan 
of the Ada95 RM (principally in Annex P, the Syntax Summary and the Syntax Cross 
Reference), I couldn't find the nonterminals or the production you specified above. 
 Can you please come back with a specific reference (i.e., document, section, page 
number, whatever) where you found this beastie?  I'd love to dig into it & find the 
answer myself.

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