From: Wannabe h4x0r <chris@dont.spam.me>
Subject: Re: constrained subtypes
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 22:09:05 GMT
Date: 2002-03-13T22:09:05+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56Qj8.34104$ZR2.17541@rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3c8cc63b$1@pull.gecm.com
On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 10:00:10 -0500, George Stevens wrote:
> We're trying to use subtypes of base integer, constraining them 1 .. 8
> (i.e. static values)
> When we use these types in a case statement, covering values 1 - 8, the
> Aonix Ada compiler (7.1.2) complains that we haven't defined "others".
> However, we shouldn't need to, as all cases are within the constrained
> limits. I've looked at Programming in Ada 95 - Barnes (p106) which
> seems to suggest that we're doing the right thing language-wise, so long
> as the range limits are static types.
>
> Is this a compiler funny or an Ada funny?
>
>
You might need to create an exception just in case the
value, for some odd reason, just happens to fall outside
the expected range. Though I cant say for sure.
Chris
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2002-03-11 15:00 constrained subtypes George Stevens
2002-03-11 16:16 ` Stephen Leake
2002-03-11 16:50 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-03-11 21:05 ` Anh_Vo
2002-03-12 9:39 ` George Stevens
2002-03-12 10:38 ` Martin Dowie
2002-03-12 11:57 ` George Stevens
2002-03-12 12:02 ` Martin Dowie
2002-03-12 12:03 ` Martin Dowie
2002-03-12 16:42 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-03-13 22:09 ` Wannabe h4x0r [this message]
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2002-03-12 7:59 Christoph Grein
2002-03-12 10:37 Christoph Grein
2002-03-13 6:22 Christoph Grein
2002-03-13 14:18 ` Robert Dewar
2002-03-14 11:01 Christoph Grein
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