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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: ada.strings.bounded slice errors
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 18:16:50 +0100
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tmoran@acm.org writes:

> What should Slice(S, Low, High) do in the various cases:

>   S is null

Do you mean S = ""?  Then Length (S) = 0, and you can apply the rules
below.

>   Low > S'last+1

(You mean "Low > Length (S) + 1".)

Index_Error is propagated.

>   High > S'last

Index_Error is propagated, but this was added in TC 1, the original
Ada 95 RM didn't require this.