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From: fraser@nospam.com
Subject: Re: should I be interested in ada?
Date: 1999/02/20
Date: 1999-02-20T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7an79j$oac$1@remarQ.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3k8xf3zkl.fsf@mheaney.ni.net

I nearly cried when matthew_heaney@acm.org said:

>fraser@nospam.com writes:

>> In fact, one of my favourite things about Ada is the various ways in
>> which you can specify a range.  I generally pick the lowest one on the
>> following list that's available in the context:
 
>>    for I in 1 .. 10 loop
>>    for I in Low .. High loop

>Perhaps I'm being pedantic, but I don't recommend these forms.  It's
>better to try to assert the type somehow.  I sometimes see this:

Maybe I was being unclear; what I mean was that the two forms above are
ones I don't use.  The top one in the list is the least preferred, the
bottom is the most preferred.

Using "Positive range 1 .. 10" instead as you suggest for the above
two forms is probably wise; however it's been an awful long time since
I wrote anything like that.  But there you go.

>>    for I in Discrete_Type loop
>>    for I in Array_Type'Range loop
>>    for I in Array_Object'Range loop

>I like these better.

>> (I think I read this in the Quality and Style Guide).

>Well, yet another guideline in that book I disagree with.

Actually, I think you agree with it -- I just said it badly.

cheers,
Fraser.
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  reply	other threads:[~1999-02-20  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 89+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-02-14  0:00 should I be interested in ada? Phillip Helbig
1999-02-15  0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-02-23  0:00   ` David Starner
1999-02-15  0:00 ` Gautier
1999-02-16  0:00 ` Ken Thomas
1999-02-17  0:00   ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-18  0:00     ` robert_dewar
1999-02-18  0:00       ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-18  0:00         ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19  0:00           ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-19  0:00             ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19  0:00               ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-20  0:00                 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-22  0:00                   ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-23  0:00                     ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-02-24  0:00                       ` White rabbit (was: should I be interested in ada?) dennison
1999-02-25  0:00                       ` Alice books " JP Thornley
1999-02-25  0:00                         ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-02-22  0:00                   ` should I be interested in ada? dennison
1999-02-20  0:00                 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-20  0:00                   ` Steve Doiel
1999-02-19  0:00               ` William Clodius
1999-02-19  0:00               ` dennison
1999-02-19  0:00                 ` William Clodius
1999-02-19  0:00                 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19  0:00                 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-20  0:00                   ` robert_dewar
1999-02-22  0:00                     ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-19  0:00               ` Phillip Helbig
1999-02-18  0:00         ` William Clodius
1999-02-18  0:00           ` nabbasi
1999-02-18  0:00             ` robert_dewar
1999-02-18  0:00           ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19  0:00             ` William Clodius
1999-02-19  0:00               ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-20  0:00                 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-22  0:00                   ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-22  0:00                     ` William Clodius
1999-02-23  0:00                     ` robert_dewar
1999-02-23  0:00                       ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-22  0:00                 ` William Clodius
1999-02-23  0:00                   ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-23  0:00                     ` William Clodius
1999-02-25  0:00                       ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-25  0:00                         ` robert_dewar
1999-02-23  0:00               ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-02-24  0:00                 ` William Clodius
1999-02-24  0:00                 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-26  0:00                   ` Robert A Duff
1999-02-27  0:00                     ` Semantic info pragmas (was: should I be interested in ada?) Nick Roberts
1999-03-01  0:00                       ` Samuel Tardieu
1999-03-01  0:00                         ` Robert A Duff
1999-02-24  0:00               ` should I be interested in ada? William Clodius
1999-02-25  0:00                 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-25  0:00                   ` robert_dewar
1999-02-26  0:00                     ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-18  0:00         ` Jerry Petrey
1999-02-18  0:00           ` fraser
1999-02-19  0:00             ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-20  0:00               ` fraser [this message]
1999-02-18  0:00           ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-18  0:00             ` Joel Seidman
1999-02-18  0:00             ` Dan Nagle
1999-02-18  0:00               ` nabbasi
1999-02-19  0:00               ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-19  0:00                 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19  0:00                   ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-19  0:00                     ` robert_dewar
1999-02-21  0:00                       ` William Clodius
1999-02-23  0:00                         ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-02-19  0:00                     ` William Clodius
1999-02-20  0:00                       ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-21  0:00                         ` robert_dewar
1999-02-21  0:00                           ` William Clodius
1999-02-22  0:00                           ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-19  0:00                 ` Dan Nagle
1999-02-19  0:00                   ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19  0:00                     ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-19  0:00                     ` Dan Nagle
1999-02-23  0:00                     ` Peter Hermann
1999-02-18  0:00     ` robert_dewar
1999-02-18  0:00       ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-18  0:00         ` William Clodius
1999-02-18  0:00           ` dennison
1999-02-20  0:00 ` Hartmut H. Schaefer
1999-02-20  0:00   ` bill
1999-02-21  0:00     ` dewar
1999-02-21  0:00   ` dewar
1999-02-22  0:00     ` dennison
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