From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Why both "with" and "use"?
Date: 1999/02/19
Date: 1999-02-19T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7ako10$e3l$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7akfni$6ua$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com
In article <7akfni$6ua$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
dennison@telepath.com wrote:
> In article <7akabo$1uk$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
> robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com wrote:
>
> >
> > Furthermore, we really do not typically want to have
> > to preface every routine in this package by Unbounded,
> >
> > Unbounded.Head (Unbounded.To_String ("abc"), ....
> >
> > seems plain annoying to me!
>
> ...until you try programming with bounded strings too.
Not at all!!
Your declarations in this case will say Bounded_String or
Unbounded_String and then of course you get the right
Trim. That is what overloading is all about, and why it
is useful.
Surely you do not get upset that "+" means different things
depending on which type it is applied to???
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Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-02-13 0:00 Why both "with" and "use"? Mike Silva
1999-02-13 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1999-02-13 0:00 ` bill
1999-02-13 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1999-02-13 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-13 0:00 ` bill
1999-02-14 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1999-02-14 0:00 ` Bob Collins
1999-02-14 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1999-02-16 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-02-13 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-15 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-02-15 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-02-16 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-02-13 0:00 ` Corey Minyard
1999-02-13 0:00 ` mike
1999-02-13 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-13 0:00 ` bill
1999-02-14 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-14 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-14 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-13 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-02-14 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-16 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-02-17 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-17 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-02-17 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-17 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-02-17 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-02-18 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-18 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-19 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-02-19 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-02-19 0:00 ` Brian Hanson
1999-02-19 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19 0:00 ` bourguet
1999-02-19 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-19 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-19 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-19 0:00 ` robert_dewar [this message]
1999-02-19 0:00 ` Ada multiple string personalities. why so many? mike
1999-02-19 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-02-19 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-02-22 0:00 ` Brian Hanson
1999-02-19 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-18 0:00 ` Why both "with" and "use"? robert_dewar
1999-02-18 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-02-18 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-02-17 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-15 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
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