Re: Surprise in array concatenation

["Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam@spam.com>]

Gene wrote:

> -- 'First is not always 1.  How marginally
> Ada!

'First is not always 1 (or 0, or X) is a basic concept in Ada. It's only if you 
don't know, or forget, this, and assume the behavior you learned in lesser 
languages, that you have problems.

I came to Ada from Pascal, so I was used to the lower bound not being fixed, and 
the discovery of attributes simply made life easier. Had I come directly from 
FORTRAN, for example, I might have had more difficulty, because it would have 
involved grasping both the idea of user-defined lower bounds and the idea of 
attributes.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"I'm particularly glad that these lovely children were
here today to hear that speech. Not only was it authentic
frontier gibberish, it expressed a courage little seen
in this day and age."
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