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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,103b407e8b68350b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-15 11:11:50 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!newspump.monmouth.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!colt.net!kibo.news.demon.net!demon!newshub1.home.nl!home.nl!amsnews01.chello.com!news-hub.cableinet.net!blueyonder!internal-news-hub.cableinet.net!news-text.cableinet.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.1.2418 Subject: Re: Anybody in US using ADA ? One silly idea.. From: Bill Findlay Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Message-ID: References: <1041908422.928308@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1041997309.165001@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1042086217.253468@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1042477504.547640@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1042651417.215661@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1042657338.377677@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 19:11:49 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.195.52.70 X-Complaints-To: abuse@blueyonder.co.uk X-Trace: news-text.cableinet.net 1042657909 80.195.52.70 (Wed, 15 Jan 2003 19:11:49 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 19:11:49 GMT Organization: blueyonder (post doesn't reflect views of blueyonder) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:33048 Date: 2003-01-15T19:11:49+00:00 List-Id: On 15/1/03 19:02, in article 1042657338.377677@master.nyc.kbcfp.com, "Hyman Rosen" wrote: > Bill Findlay wrote: >> I've noticed you say something like this before, Hyman, and I wonder if I'm >> mistaking your meaning. Ada ranged types are NOT fixed at compile-time, they >> may be fully dynamic. > > Oh, that's interesting, I didn't know that. > Can I then have arrays whose index type is > this dynamic subtype? Can I have records > which have such arrays as components? > Yes! In the record case, an array field bound can even be the value of another (discriminant) field of the same record. 8-) -- Bill-Findlay chez blue-yonder.co.uk ("-" => "")