From: ncohen@watson.ibm.com (Norman H. Cohen)
Subject: Re: Record aggregate question (language lawyer needed!)
Date: 1996/06/24
Date: 1996-06-24T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4qm4rq$1f7a@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 31CAEC7B.446B9B3D@escmail.orl.mmc.com
In article <31CAEC7B.446B9B3D@escmail.orl.mmc.com>, "Theodore E. Dennison"
<dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com> writes:
|> Technically, I think they are of two different (anonymous) types,
|> both of which happen to be subtypes of STRING.
Newcomers trying to learn Ada are urged to ignore this misstatement,
which can only serve to confuse. It reflects a fundamental
misunderstanding of the relationships among types and subtypes.
All subtypes of String are of the same type, namely type String!
--
Norman H. Cohen ncohen@watson.ibm.com
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-06-21 0:00 Record aggregate question (language lawyer needed!) mcriley on BIX
1996-06-21 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-06-22 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-06-24 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen [this message]
1996-06-24 0:00 ` Philip Brashear
1996-06-25 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-06-21 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-06-21 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
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