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: 103376,6339fea48a1b8cda X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newspeer1.nac.net!feeder.erje.net!news.ecp.fr!ciril.fr!news.cs.univ-paris8.fr!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder2-2.proxad.net!cleanfeed4-a.proxad.net!nnrp17-1.free.fr!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Enumeration representation clause surprise. References: <770ae1af-b9fd-4c8a-915c-a5cb3ea8fc81@c65g2000hsa.googlegroups.com> <87hcbybazk.fsf@willow.rfc1149.net> From: Samuel Tardieu Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:11:17 +0200 Message-ID: <87d4mlbyi2.fsf@willow.rfc1149.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:vX9wtNRQlfFQxrbz9a+qvu8iSPs= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Leafnode-NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.56.47.149 Organization: Guest of ProXad - France NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Jun 2008 09:15:01 MEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.191.14.223 X-Trace: 1213341301 news-3.free.fr 14484 88.191.14.223:51773 X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net X-Original-Bytes: 1558 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:685 Date: 2008-06-13T09:15:01+02:00 List-Id: > > Compiling: test1.adb (source file time stamp: 2008-06-12 21:22:24) > > > > 26. X1 at 0 range 0 .. -1; -- Minus 1 !! > > | > > >>> warning: component representation will be biased > > So what would the value of the bias be? Yes, I've noticed too that the error message could be improved in this particular case, as here "biased" means "different from what you might expect".