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=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,35ee0472de38e833 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-12-13 11:40:07 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.infoave.net!cyclone-sjo1.usenetserver.com!news-out.usenetserver.com!newsfeed.skycache.com!Cidera!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp2.deja.com!nnrp1.deja.com!not-for-mail From: Robert Dewar Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: RE: Variable length raw-byte data Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 19:26:49 GMT Organization: Deja.com Message-ID: <918ihd$3gu$1@nnrp1.deja.com> References: <9185vs$nh8$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8Mavy1o6gTqY@eisner.decus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.41 X-Article-Creation-Date: Wed Dec 13 19:26:49 2000 GMT X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.61 [en] (OS/2; U) X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x71.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.41 X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDrobert_dewar Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:3084 Date: 2000-12-13T19:26:49+00:00 List-Id: In article <8Mavy1o6gTqY@eisner.decus.org>, Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) wrote: > Is their approach > now outlawed for Ada 95, or was it outlawed by an > AI for Ada 83 ? It was considered to be a ramification in an Ada 83 AI. It is clearly wrong to treat 0 as unlimited in this context (and silly, because the default if no such clause is given should be unlimited, the whole point of a storage size clause is to set a limit). Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/