From: "(see below)" <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Easy question about Character manipulation
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:02:15 +0000
Date: 2007-01-31T21:02:15+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C1E6B457.924F7%yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: NZ4wh.374843$1i1.113582@attbi_s72
On 31/1/07 18:11, in article NZ4wh.374843$1i1.113582@attbi_s72, "Jeffrey R.
Carter" <jrcarter@acm.org> wrote:
> When I learned Pascal (not ISO), my understanding was that
>
> type
> A = 1 .. 3;
>
> was called a subrange, and defined A as what Ada calls a subtype of
> Integer. Since
>
> B = 1 .. 3;
>
> was another subtype of the same type (in Ada terms), assignment between
> them was no problem.
That is the practical effect, but it is not what the formal semantics
actually says. And, of course, there is more to type than assignment.
--
Bill Findlay
<surname><forename> chez blueyonder.co.uk
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-29 20:01 Easy question about Character manipulation mark
2007-01-29 20:17 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-29 21:30 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-01-30 0:51 ` (see below)
2007-01-30 1:43 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-01-30 2:09 ` (see below)
2007-01-30 20:18 ` Robert A Duff
2007-01-30 21:07 ` (see below)
2007-01-30 22:05 ` Robert A Duff
2007-01-31 3:07 ` (see below)
2007-01-31 18:11 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-01-31 21:02 ` (see below) [this message]
2007-01-31 23:01 ` Robert A Duff
2007-01-31 23:23 ` (see below)
2007-01-31 23:46 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-02-01 0:07 ` (see below)
2007-01-30 21:08 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-31 16:54 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-01-31 17:24 ` (see below)
2007-01-30 12:28 ` Martin Krischik
2007-01-30 17:50 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-01-30 20:24 ` Robert A Duff
2007-01-30 21:12 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-30 21:39 ` Robert A Duff
2007-01-31 10:55 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-31 11:22 ` Martin Krischik
2007-01-31 18:14 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
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