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,db88d0444fafe8eb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Organization: jrcarter at acm dot org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050728 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Surprise in array concatenation References: <1125610942.747981.280770@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <1125935610.797293.40550@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1125935610.797293.40550@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <6W0Te.5718$4P5.4916@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net> Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 19:22:42 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.254.207.123 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net 1125948162 4.254.207.123 (Mon, 05 Sep 2005 12:22:42 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 12:22:42 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4449 Date: 2005-09-05T19:22:42+00:00 List-Id: 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." Blazing Saddles 88