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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.36.118.82 with SMTP id z79mr8715171itb.15.1513518577819; Sun, 17 Dec 2017 05:49:37 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.157.14.137 with SMTP id 9mr663369otj.14.1513518577563; Sun, 17 Dec 2017 05:49:37 -0800 (PST) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.kjsl.com!usenet.stanford.edu!i6no575303itb.0!news-out.google.com!b73ni2272ita.0!nntp.google.com!g80no572119itg.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2017 05:49:37 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <99db6133-01df-4dfd-afd7-9521f937e79d@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=173.71.208.22; posting-account=QF6XPQoAAABce2NyPxxDAaKdAkN6RgAf NNTP-Posting-Host: 173.71.208.22 References: <6bedbdee-ca7f-4d2a-83f9-6cc9c53d21cb@googlegroups.com> <1e659202-ab0b-44a5-9549-3e41fa465ab4@googlegroups.com> <99db6133-01df-4dfd-afd7-9521f937e79d@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <6c3d0ded-8ac3-423e-917b-5335f0982361@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: how to do things like procedure foo(A: string) is bar: string := A; begin; ...;end; From: Jere Injection-Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2017 13:49:37 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:49497 Date: 2017-12-17T05:49:37-08:00 List-Id: On Sunday, December 17, 2017 at 8:25:11 AM UTC-5, Jere wrote: > On Sunday, December 17, 2017 at 7:41:02 AM UTC-5, Mehdi Saada wrote: > > Fine. It means a variable's bounds must be known at initizialisation, n= ot compilation ? I had a boggus idea of what "static" means, or when it's n= ecessary. A boggus idea of how the whole head + stack works. I'm still not = sure, but it does simplify writing things a lot. > > Thanks. >=20 > type Name_String is String(1..10); > procedure foo(L,R : Name_String); >=20 > Then everything can be done at compile time. sorry, subtype Name_String, not type Name_String